News & Openings

  • Canadian Business published a feature on the big business of non-alcoholic spirits.

  • Some inspiration on how distillers can look to beer for techniques and ideas.

  • Distilleries powered by solar panels, and even using solar stills, can be energy-efficient and smart-business choices, according to Vine Pair.

  • In B.C., the government advised small-batch distillers to stop making hand sanitizer by May 8, 2022, and to donate or sell all sanitizer by November 2022, according to CBC.

  • In the Vancouver Sun, Mia Stainsby wrote about cocktail-pairing dinners, including B.C. craft spirits cocktails.

  • Ending a dispute with the Scotch Whisky Association, Saanich distiller Graeme Macaloney will operate under the name Macaloney's Island Distillery, the Victoria Times-Colonist reported.

  • The Vancouver Sun rounded up some B.C.-made vermouths. Cochrane, Alberta, has started a Booze-a-lution Tour that includes local meadery, brewery and distillery stops.

  • Eat North wrote about small-batch maple spirits, to coincide with spring's maple-syrup harvesting season.

  • A new micro-distillery, Luby Bower Distillery, is planned for Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan—the first in the town, Moose Jaw Today reported.

  • Narcity recently rounded up some favourite distillery tours in Ontario.

  • A new line of non-alcoholic spirits from Quebec, HP Juniper, has launched with Classic, Floral and Signature gin-style bottlings plus two ready-to-drink canned non-alcoholic cocktails with tonic.

  • Pure Pour, a new brand of no-leak bottle spouts, is offering a 30 day free trail of a case of 100 spouts (with a cost of USD$169 after a satisfactory trial period, or their return at the end of the month). Pure Pour spouts claim to be rust-free, dishwasher-safe and last three times as long and typical pouring spouts.