The Gateway Gazette reported that Eau Claire Distillery, a farm-to-glass distillery in southern Alberta, launched Hawthorn Gin in partnership with with the Hawthorn Dining Room & Bar, located inside Calgary’s iconic Fairmont Palliser hotel. Hawthorn berry and 16 other botanicals flavour the gin, which celebrates renovations and a new cocktail menu that includes The Home Grown, a gin and tonic featuring the spirit.
Salish Sea Spirits joins distilleries on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, relocating this winter to Powell River, reports the Powell River Peak. The owners had previously been distilling honey-based spirits out of Kootenay Country Craft Distillery, and plan to use local apples and other ingredients after they relocate in March 2020.
The British Columbia Craft Distillers Guild held its 2019 AGM at Resurrection Spirits in Vancouver on November 16.
In late October, Nova Scotia’s fifth annual craft spirits festival, Spirited Away, was held in Lunenberg. Fan favourites like the Sip & Dash spirits-sampling tour and Distillers Marketplace returned, and innovations like a DIY gin session, a barrel reconditioning demo, plus cocktail-focused workshops on shrub-making, beer cocktails and the province’s spirited history rounded out the weekend.