The BC Distilled Festival was held on Saturday, May 13 in Vancouver, with 39 British Columbia distilleries pouring samples from 180 spirits. Attendees voted on their favourite spirits, as well as the BC Distilled Distillery of the Year.
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Earlier this year, Shelter Point Distillery founder Patrick Evans sold majority ownership of the distillery to Chris Nelson of Nelson Investment Inc. (Evans continues to farm on the Campbell River, B.C. property where the distillery is located.) Stephen Goodridge, a founder of Goodridge & Williams Distilling, has been appointed Shelter Point's new General Manager.
Austin, Texas-based Milestone Brands acquired Victoria Distillers in June and plans to double volumes of products like Empress 1908 gin to more than 400,000 cases annually.
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This fall, Five Bottle Bar by Jessica Schact of Ampersand Distilling in Duncan, B.C., will be published by Touchwood Editions. It's a cocktail book to help people build a full cocktail bar with just five-plus bottles.
Modern Luxuria wrote about Anohka Distillery, located west of Edmonton, makers of Tempest Gin.
Eau Claire Distillery in Turner Valley, Alberta, launched a Stampede Canadian Rye Whisky in partnership with the Calgary Stampede in June.
Alberta Open Farm Days on August 13 and 14 will include distillers like Pivot Spirits Craft Distillery in Rolling Hills, Alberta.
PA Now wrote about the vibrant brewing and distilling scene in Saskatchewan, including Last Mountain Distillery and Lucky Bastard Distillers.
The Ottawa Citizen reported that Dunrobin Distilleries is building a new distillery on the site of a former illicit cannabis grow-op site in downtown Stittsville, Ontario. Local legend has it that Elivs Presley once stopped at a former gas station on the same site to fill up his Cadillac in 1957.
Apikol, a Quebec micro-distilling and agri-tourism operation, received a $100,000 Canadian Economic Development grant in July to support its beekeeping operations and honey-based spirits.
In the U.S., on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, women- and LGBTQ-owned Republic Restoratives Distillery in Washington, D.C., announced it would donate proceeds from the sale of its Dissent Gin to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
Shout-out to Canada’s Women Distillers
We’ve compiled a list of some of the women distillers who help make the artisan scene in Canada vibrant.
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