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The 9th BC Distilled Festival was held on April 13th, 2024 in Vancouver. The festival kicked off with two whisky tastings led by Davin de Kergommeaux (April 10th and 11th), followed by a Distillers Dinner with paired cocktails and spirits on April 12 and then the main tasting festival on April 13.
Read moreOn January 18 the results of the annual Canadian Whisky Awards were announced in Victoria, B.C.
This year the Canadian Whisky of the Year Award went to Paradigm Spirits’ 2022 Heritage Collection, and 19-year-old blended whisky.
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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.
Read moreWhat does a $14-million lottery winner, physician and distillery owner say about the new national drinking guidelines? Plus events, openings and more news.
Read moreResults of the 2023 Canadian Whisky Awards were announced tonight at the Victoria Whisky Festival in Victoria, B.C. For the first time in the thirteen-year history of the awards, a regional, artisan producer has taken the top spot.
Following a blind tasting by a panel of nine whisky experts, Palm Trees & A Tropical Breeze, distilled by North Vancouver’s Sons of Vancouver Distillery was named Canadian Whisky of the Year, Artisan Producers.
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DEVINE Distillery’s Kevin Titcomb serving out the good stuff! • Photo credit Leila Kowk
BC Distilled retuned to an in-person festival in Vancouver this past weekend, after a two-year break. On offer April 9 were 150 spirits to try, with a third of those new to the market since the last show.
Read moreThe Vancouver Sun recently published a story on Odd Society Spirits’ experiments with local Burns Bog peat from Delta, B.C., in its spirits.
Real Agriculture recently posted a conversation with Spirits Canada’s CEO, Jan Westcott, about changes in Alberta that allow small-batch distillers to use non-Alberta agricultural products (such as imported NGS) without jeopardizing their preferential mark-up structure with the Alberta government.
CBC Edmonton reported that the number of distilleries in the province grew from seven to 47 in the last five years, according to Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission statistics.
In an innovative partnership, Fort Distillery in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, collaborated with local food entrepreneurs at Field Notes to produce Don’t Call Me Sweet Pea, a “garden amaro” distilled from dried peas that celebrates Alberta products, Global News and The Globe and Mail reported.
Travel + Leisure recently mentioned Park Distillery in Banff, Alberta, as one of the highlights of a story on “The Best 12 Small Towns in Canada.”
Lumsden, Saskatchewan-based Last Mountain Distillery is accepting Bitcoin cryptocurrency as payment for private-cask whisky (in the $20,000 to $25,000 range) from his distillery, the Regina Leader Post reported.
In Quebec, the Union québecoise des microdistillerie (UQMD) and its members have banded together to hold open houses, launch a petition and more to convince the provincial government to relax liquor laws, making policies friendlier to small distilleries, CBC reported.
A sustainability-minded new grain-to-glass distillery in the Ottawa Valley, Ogham Craft Spirits is
sourcing grain from local farmers, gathering seasonal botanicals and using water from the Lanark Highlands in supporting a circular economy. Currently they make a Gin and a Poitín (unaged Irish-style spirit).
Longshot Distilling Company is a farm-based and family-owned distillery, restaurant and dog-friendly patio in Winfield, Alberta, currently offering vodka (plain and lime flavoured), gin and coffee liqueur.
The 2021 Canadian Whisky Awards selected results have been announced. ADC has summarized the results with a focus on Canada’s artisan distillers.
Read moreArtisan Distillers Canada (ADC) proudly announces the results of the annual Canadian Artisan Spirit Competition (CASC). CASC is Canada’s only national spirit competition reserved exclusively for artisan distilleries.
Read moreDistillateur artisanaux du Canada (DAC) annonce fièrement les résultats du Concours de spiritueux artisanaux canadiens (CSAC).
CSAC est le seul concours national de spiritueux réservé exclusivement aux distilleries artisanales.
Read moreWith liquor and drinks sales restrictions altered and eased in many provinces during the pandemic, these artisan distilleries, their cocktail bars and partners have gotten creative with cocktail kits for spirits fans to mix into delicious drinks at home.
Read moreThis spring Canadian artisan distilleries got innovative: we’ve got previews of a few of the new products coming off the still, in your colleagues’s own words.
Read moreOn one February weekend, a drone-strike in East Vancouver could have wiped out much of the braintrust of B.C. artisan distilling, gathered for a master blender’s workshop at Odd Society Spirits. Get a peek at what professional development could be like at the ADC Conference & Trade Show.
Read morePre-selling private batches of maturing spirits can help fund your operations—and build a fan base for your distillery.
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Whisky festivals have long been the domain of big brands, dominated by global Scotch, bourbon and Canadian whisky companies. But the 15th annual Victoria Whisky Festival and 10th anniversary Canadian Whisky Awards had a notable flavour of B.C.’s artisan, local distilleries.
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The trend predictions for 2020 are in: the so-called Lo & No movement, what some call a Gen-Z-driven low-proof and no-proof imbibing trend, is not going anywhere (not to mention the low-sugar, gluten-free and low-calorie movements). Sample what some of your colleagues across Canada are doing to embrace it.
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