Forty-eight bottles of Last Straw’s Straight Ontario Rye, Cask 2 will be available at cask strength beginning November 10 for $65. Then, early in 2021, the rest will be released at 43%. It’s great whisky.
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Scoffing at fairy tale wisdom, Willibald Distillery in Ayr, Ontario has just released a captivating gingerbread gin that’s guaranteed to put a sugar-frosted smile on your face.
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Campbell released a soup brand in 1970 using the name “Chunky,” to imply “appetizing.” An advertising campaign that followed, aired for years during game shows like The Price is Right. The premise, two burly men with limited vocabularies, argue about how to eat soup:
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In a truly novel approach to making spirits, Dairy Distillery founder, Omid McDonald and his team distil unused milk sugar into a voluptuous lactose-free spirit they call Vodkow. Blending Vodkow with cream and sugar yields Vodkow Cream Liquor, Canada’s only lactose-free cream liqueur. Coffee or egg nog calling?
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Near the Windsor, Ontario banks of Pike Creek rows of squat buildings have been dusted with a black patina nicknamed “distillery shadow.” From the outside, they look like ordinary large concrete warehouses, but inside, sit luxury resorts for thousands of ageing whisky barrels.
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In the cocktail world, BarChef’s Frankie Solarik attained his license to kill when he and co-owner Brent VanderVeen launched the BarChef Project Toasted Old Fashioned in 2017. Now, with a 2019 Vintage Late Harvest Vesper he shows he’s not afraid to use it. Solarik’s Vesper is killer.
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This summer, Beam Suntory Canada has introduced a new premium Canadian Vodka called Northern Keep made in the same stills famous for its rye.
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Embedded onto Prospector’s label is a topographic map. Does it lead to a forgotten British Columbia mine or a creek for panning gold? Only when cork is pulled, filling the room with the fragrance of brown sugar, peaches and black cherry, does the map reveal its real treasure – 100% Northern British Columbia rye grain sealed in the bottle.
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This September, even amid a pandemic, the Forty Creek special release calendar we’ve enjoyed for 14 straight years will continue undaunted. In fact, this year, they have resolved to release two whiskies.
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Before they head out to pasture, old whisky makers are known to tuck a few gems away for their successors to discover. So, rather than joining other pensioners at the early bird special, 85-year-old Canadian whisky legend John Philip Wiser would more likely be found at his Prescott Ontario distillery until he died on April 30, 1911.
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Is Forty Creek madly going against the grain, or are they cunningly redefining it?
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It’s been a decade but feels like just yesterday that lineups snaked through the parking lot at Still Waters distillery to buy the first Stalk & Barrel single malt whisky. It was a history in the making as Ontario’s first modern-age microdistillery released its premiere single malt.
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When Spring rolls around in Nova Scotia, it’s time to harvest spruce tips. Experts suggest that tips from young trees, around a decade old, have the best flavour and you don’t need a ladder to pick them. With spruce trees growing around their property, it was natural that Jill Linquist and Chris Pruski at Nova Scotia’s Raging Crow Distillery would harvest the tips for the distillery’s Spruce Tip Gin.
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When Caldera’s Jarret Stuart told us that his great-great-grandfather had been instrumental in introducing the Macallan Scotch whisky to Canada, we had to do some digging.
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Conception Bay Newfoundland is home to Canada’s first English speaking colony and as the name suggests, is one of the most populous regions in the province. But, get your minds out of the gutter. It actually has a religious origin, referring to the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
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When the word pioneer comes up, it brings up school trip memories to the local Pioneer Village where you would hear tales of settling in the new world.
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Dr Don Livermore’s finesse as a blender is on full display in Pike Creek’s 2019 Corby Craft Rare Range Series entry. This time, the doctor gave his 21-year-old whisky bed rest in Spanish oloroso sherry casks.
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In February 2013, Vancouver fired up its microdistilling scene in a former car repair garage. The Long Table Distillery was the city's first microdistillery. Its flagship London Dry Gin premiered then peeled out of that garage and into the glass if gin lovers.
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The Willibald Farm Distillery and Reid’s Distillery have combined their gin superpowers into making Ontario’s first collaborative gin. The supergroup found their inspiration in what a winter’s feast means to them. They then took those elements and converted it into this gin.
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“How can we relate our spirits to music and give back to the community?” distiller Chris Ferg wondered. Turn to musical song titles and partner with local organizations, he thought. Durham’s Wheat King’s vodka, made with Ontario organic winter wheat, alludes to the 1992 Tragically Hip hit song.
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