Spirit Works Distillery

The facility is small and so is the team that runs it. But the flavors are bigger then life. The Vodka was so smooth. I am not usually a Gin fan but their Gin was floral and lovely. My favorite was the Sloe Gin of the Gins. The have the Sloe berries frozen and flown in from Bulgaria. It is a personal family recipe of the owner. The whiskey was delish. The whiskey was fantastic! Go for a tasting! It is totally worth the trip! Sundays at 4pm.

I’ve visited Spirit Works twice. The first time i did the standard tasting, and was impressed by everything they had. I never thought vodka had much room for differentiation, but theirs proved me wrong with its lovely vanilla character — while I’m not a vodka connoisseur, I’d never previously considered drinking it neat. This one, I would. As the base spirit for all of their gins, that portends good things for the heart of their product line. Indeed, the standard gin is bright and lively and itself serves as a great base for the delicious barrel and sloe gins.
My second visit was during a Unilocal event where I was happy to repeat the tasting of the vodka and gins, as well as to taste the just-​released wheat and rye whiskeys. Both whiskeys impressed me; I’m a fan of Manhattans, and look forward to making one with Spirit Works rye and sloe gin.
The second visit also included a great tour of the distillery. Beyond seeing the equipment and hearing a bit about the distilling process, we got to spend quite a bit of time with husband-​and-​wife team Ashby (the head distiller) and Timo, who are both fantastically genuine, nice and entertaining, and obviously love what they do. They’re the sort of people I want to see succeed just because of who they are; based on the quality of the product they’re putting out, I have little worry that their success will continue to grow.

We came here today as part of an event and thoroughly enjoyed our tour and tasting. It was really interesting to learn about the production process and hear the owner talk. He’s very friendly and has some great stories. The distillery is one of the few in the country that takes raw grain and produces and bottles the final product. My favorite spirit that we tasted today was the sloe gin. It’s complex and balanced with several flavors coming through.

So looking forward to the tour today. Starting with 5 stars. The tour is great. The owner of this craft distillery is very personable and was so informative. He talked about the process in a distillery 101 type class. Really quite fascinating. We tasted neat vodka, gin, rye, barrel whiskey, then the finale with the tasting of the sloe gin. I’m lifting my cordial tasting glass now and tasting … ohhhh that’s delicious. Sign me up for a bottle of that. Ah, but no, you can’t buy a bottle here. You know the feds. New law next year to be able to purchase from tasting room. Well I’m off to Bottle Barn to get some delicious sloe gin. Any ice anyone?