News
Drinks industry site Seven Fifty Daily rounded up a range of business models for craft distilleries in the U.S.
The B.C. Ale Trail site showed some love to its distilling siblings with a guide to five B.C. breweries that also have distilling operations.
Spirits accelerator company Distill Ventures hosted a roundtable event on Keeping Whisky Sustainable: access the free recording here.
Calgary hotel The Dorian (named and themed for the forever-young Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray) is producing bespoke craft spirits for guests in collaboration with Eau Claire Distillery.
The Calgary Herald asked some local distillers how having Russian spirits taken off local shelves could provide a boost to their business.
Many distilleries in B.C., Saskatchewan and beyond have been donating proceeds of some sales and creating unique products to support relief efforts in Ukraine.
O'Kenny Craft Spirits in Pembroke, Ontario, is creating a lazy-river style river-tubing experience this summer on its property adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway, on the Muskrat River, CTV Ottawa reported.
A construction industry news site profiled the historic Guelph building holding The Metalworks development (which includes Spring Mill Distillery)—including the copper casks, suspected of belonging to Prohibition bootleggers, found in a crawl space.
St-Ubalde, Quebec, Ubald Distillery won five awards, including a Best in Class, at the Craft Spirits Berlin Awards 2022.
Maritime Spirits, a Fibe TV series about craft alcohol producers in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and P.E.I., has 10 episodes for Bell customers, including episodes about Moonshine Creek Distilling and Deep Roots Distillery.
The Glenora Inn & Distillery got a high-profile nod from a recent Travel + Leisure story about distillery hotels.
Openings
Gnu Craft Spirits is open in Calgary, Alberta. Named for the African herd east and created by three social animals, the distillery so far has a London Dry Gin for sale, plus a lot of silent-”g” puns, on its website.
Snake Lake Brewing in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, is expanding into distilling with 1903 Distilling Company, within a former garage next to the brewery. The Sylvan Lake News reported that the new distillery hoped to release vodka, gin and canned hard lemonade by this spring.