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Spinnakers small batch spirits are distilled in their seaside distillery. Made with 100% BC grown malted grains and water from their on-site artesian well.
308 Catherine Street, Victoria
250-386-2739
Spinnakers.com
• Spinnakers Classic Vodka
• Spinnakers London Dry Gin,
• Au Currant Crème de Cassis
• Chocoholic Crème de Cacao
• Cranberry Gin
• Pink Grapefruit Gin
This Vancouver Island distillery makes gin and vodka sourced from 100% Alberta wheat.
4A-4715 Trans-Canada Highway, Whippletree Junction, Duncan
250-213-8476
GoldstreamDistillery.com
• Goldstream Vodka
• Goldstream Gin
ClearCut Distilling Company takes the wine from their winery, SoundEnd Farm Winery, and distills it into spirits.
319 Sutil Road, Quadra Island
250-285-2257
SouthEnd.ca/Distillery
• Botanically Incorrect Gin
The Indigenous-owned winery now also crafts vodka and gin infused with a combination of locally foraged botanicals, including rose hips, lavender, milk thistle, sorrel, borage and black lace elderberry—many of which were traditionally used as medicines by the local Indigenous Peoples.
2218 Horizon Dr., Kelowna
250-769-2824
IndigenousWorldWinery.com
• Vodka
• Gin
Bespoke Spirits House is a natural progression in the career of owner and distiller Shelly Heppner. Inherently creative, Shelly has always gravitated toward a medium of expression, whether it has been designing functional home décor, making her best-selling martini picks, or taking up the art of distilling.
425 Stanford Ave., Parksville
BespokeSpiritsHouse.com
• Virtue Vodka
• Jezebel Gin
The philosophy and profile of their spirits are very much inspired by the farm and forest they call home. With an ever-increasing amount of their ingredients growing just a stone’s throw from the still house, they strive to keep their spirits as ‘local’ as you can get.
5275 Goodison Road, Kelowna
250-469-2203
WiseacreFarmDistillery.com
• Prologue Vodka
• Single Malt Vodka
• Lazy Ass Vodka
• R&D Gin
• Lavender Gin
• Rhubarb Gin Liqueur
Influenced by American Moonshine recipes, Mainland’s small-batch corn whisky and whisky Liqueurs are made in a hybrid reflux still with organic ingredients, in Surrey, B.C.
107-3425 189th St., Surrey
MainlandWhisky.com
• Corn Whisky
• Cinnamon Whisky
• Wildrose Whisky Liqueur
• Cherry Whisky Cordial
A family-run boutique craft distillery on Bowen Island, they handcraft vodka, gin and whisky from local organic ingredients.
441 Bowen Island Trunk Rd., Bowen Island
778-895-9622
CopperSpirit.ca
• The new Copper Spirit Distillery is making organic liquor on Bowen Island
• Presence Vodka
• Harmony Dry Gin
• Verity Rye Spirit
Misguided Spirits uses solely B.C. agricultural products—grain grown in the Peace River region and barley malted by Victoria-based Phillips Brewery and Malt Works. Speaking of misguided, Misguided Spirits is home to Brother XII vodka, named after the charismatic and demanding mystic who led followers to a colony he established southeast of Nanaimo in the late 1920s.
18-1343 Alberni Highway, Parksville
250-616-8386
MisguidedSpirits.ca
• Brother XII Vodka
Montis Distilling is Whistler B.C.’s first craft distillery.
1062 Millar Creek Rd., Whistler
MontisDistilling.com
• North Vodka
• Alpine Gin
• Alpenglow Gin
• Winter Spirit