BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #267 - Stillhead Distilling Kirsch

DISTILLERY NOTES

Made using only 100% BC cherries, we carefully distill this un-oaked cherry eau-de-vie using our German column still to create a delicate spirit with strong aroma of cherries and marzipan. Makes any baking or fruit dish pop, and great in cocktails!

BC SPIRITS NOTES

It's a week of new things and I was sure I had this one in my collection. One of the island's cult followed spirits, the Kirsch is a testament to the love for brandy that Stillhead Distilling has. Rich and complex cherry from slightly stewed to fresh off the tree brightness. Great one for your desserts or post dinner.

Alcohol - 40% / 80 proof

Color - Clear

Nose - Fresh cut cherries, deep flesh, leaves and stems. Deep and rich cherry notes, almost stewed but still fresh

Taste - Complex and a full spectrum of cherry, rich and stewed flows though to bright and green cherries of the tree, hints of cherry leaf and bark

Finish - Complex cherry til the end

Best Enjoyed - in your cooking or neat for dessert

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Cocktail of the Week #6 - Blood and Sand

An often maligned cocktail from bartenders, I think that the Blood and Sand is one of the hardest cocktails to get right.

BLOOD AND SAND

1 oz. (30mL) Shelter Point Montfort 151

3/4 oz (22.5mL) Esquimalt Wine Co. Kina Rouge

3/4 oz (22.5mL) Okanagan Spirits Cherry

3/4 oz (22.5mL) orange juice

Glass - Large cocktail glass

Method - Shake all ingredients and double strain

Garnish - orange twist

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #266 - Yaletown Distilling Gin

DISTILLERY NOTES

Yaletown artisan gin is an aromatic London dry style. Our 8 botanicals range from Italian juniper berries, grains of paradise from West Africa, licorice root offering a gentle sweetness and bitter orange peel to round out the finish.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Another "I can't believe I haven't got this" moment with the Yaletown Distilling Gin. On the nose, it's a big and brooding London Dry style, with huge old world juniper on the nose but then the palate is a delicate taste. The juniper is still rightly there but then it is matched with soft botanicals and a floral mouthfeel. This is a perfect blend of Old World charm and PNW style.

Alcohol - 42% / 84 proof

Color - Clear

Nose - Strong earthy juniper, pomelo peel and hints of licorice

Taste - Big juniper notes on the nose caught me off guard on the palate, subtle, finessed and floral.

Finish - Big bold juniper, earthy botanicals and hints of the floral notes

Best Enjoyed - with Fevertree Mediterranean Tonic

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #265 - Liberty Distilling Endeavour Origins Gin

DISTILLERY NOTES

Produced once per year during harvest, Endeavour Origins Gin is Liberty’s version of a West Coast Traditional Dry Style Gin. The foundation is 100% Organic BC triple-distilled wheat spirit. Using a botanical gin basket, a blend of (25) BC botanicals are then slowly infused during distillation in our single copper pot still. The result is a gin with a polished, long-lasting, and smooth finish; perfect for sipping or creating your own traditional gin cocktail.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

This week is all about tasting things that I haven't had on the show or been a while between tasting and here we go for the The Liberty Distillery Endeavour Origins Gin. Made with botanicals from the province, this is a taste of the terroir. Rich and complex, allowing the other botanicals to sing as much as the juniper. This is a truly unique gin that showcases the aromatic wheat spirit base and all the spectrum of herbs and spices in the mix. A great representation of terroir in gin.

Alcohol - 45% / 90 proof

Color - Clear

Nose - Like a West Coast forest in autumn, cut wood, earthy tones and piney juniper

Taste - Great texture, the wheat spirit is a great base that assembles the complex botanicals, hints of citrus and pine solidify this as a BC gin and an exploration into terroir

Finish - Higher proof gives a beautiful texture and allows the aromatic botanicals linger on your tongue

Best Enjoyed - Classic gin martini

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #264 - Devine Distillery Bianca Vermouth

DISTILLERY NOTES

Crafted from island-grown white wine grapes and fortified by our house-distilled honey spirit. A classic James Bond martini ingredient. Light and easy to drink on its own or pair with tonic or soda, and in martinis or cocktails. Our French-style white vermouth is elegant and bright with luscious apricot, spicy cinnamon, and floral layers of jasmine and chamomile.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Surprised that I haven’t had this on the show, Devine Distillery Bianca. Gorgeous vermouth in the Bianco style. Rich wine back bone with drying and complex botanicals make this a gorgeous vermouth able to stand up to some bold base spirits. Sweet aromatic wine with fragrant Christmas spice, would be great with navy strength gin

Alcohol - 40% / 80 proof

Color - Light wheat with a deep orange centre

Nose - Bright background of aromatic white then leans into the hints of autumn spices and botanicals

Taste - The base wine is beautifully aromatic and great texture, the botanicals then flow and dry out any residual sweetness lingering. Complex botanicals from woody, herbal notes to warming spice

Finish - Mouthfilled notes of spice and herbal notes

Best Enjoyed - This is a great vermouth with navy strength gin

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #263 - Tumbleweed Spirits Blueberry Moonshine

DISTILLERY NOTES

Something New and Something Blue. Our Blueberry Moonshine has been crafted and distilled using only the finest BC grown Blueberries handpicked at their prime and infused with our delicious Moonshine. This juicy, fruity, limited release summer Spirit is great served on ice, with soda, or tonic. Enjoy and be thirsty...

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Never tasted anything from Tumbleweed Spirits before, this is a great starting point. Their base moonshine is flavorful and grain forward and doesn’t get taken over or take over the beautiful fruitiness of the blueberries. Would be great in a collins style drink with lemon and soda.

Alcohol - 40% / 80 proof

Color - Deep blueberry skin

Nose - Hints of tannic blueberries with a definite and unique grain profile from the base spirit

Taste - Balanced with the flavors of the fresh blueberries and the moonshine perfectly. First is the bright and fruity blueberries and then comes the grain structure and husky notes of the moonshine

Finish - Hints of blueberry but the moonshine sings

Best Enjoyed - Collins style

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #262 - Dubh Glas A Beautiful Man

DISTILLERY NOTES

A tribute to a dear friend, this whisky is a blend of our signature Bourbon style and a Scottish Whisky Octave Barrel. Highlighting the sweetness of corn this complex whisky has notes of graham wafers, hints of dark chocolate and red berries.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

The last of the The Dubh Glas Distillery samples, and it’s a great one to go out on. I feel that A Beautiful Man is the epitome of a summer whisky, complex and bright with the balance of classic Dubh Glas vanilla bomb with complex oak and bright and aromatic body. You won’t feel dirty to have this on the rocks in the middle of summer on the back deck.

Alcohol - 42.2% / 84.4 proof

Color - Light golden wheat

Nose - Bright notes of cut grass, citrus peel with hints of warm red fruit and vanilla

Taste - A perfect summer whisky, complex oak and classic vanilla are the back bone to the gorgeous bright notes of the Scotch octave, cut grass, sweet light fruit

Finish - Fruity, hints of vanilla and oak linger

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #261 - Okanagan Spirits Maraschino

DISTILLERY NOTES

A local take on an Italian classic.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Surprised I haven’t done this yet, Okanagan Spirits maraschino liqueur is a necessary cocktail ingredient in most classic cocktails, the original bartender ketchup. Using sour and choke cherries allow it to give a breadth of pretty cherry flavors and its sweetness from honey just ties it off.

Alcohol - 36% / 72 proof

Color - Clear

Nose - Rich cherry, high notes from the sour and deep stewed notes from the chokes

Taste - Complex cherry, pits, flesh and stems. Rich, aromatic and fragrant cherry blossoms.

Finish - Complex high and deep notes of cherry for days

Best Enjoyed - Classic cocktails, Aviations and Last Words for instance

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #260 - Tempo Strawberry Gin

DISTILLERY NOTES

The fresh aroma and slight tang of juicy strawberries meets the creamy and luxurious vanilla notes of the Temp Renovo Gin.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

This was a curve ball flavored gin from Tempo Craft Gin made by Goodridge and Williams. Just huge candy strawberries on the nose and then on the palate, that striking citrus and juniper slices through what I thought would have been a sweet gin. This would really lengthen out and become aromatic with some tonic.

Alcohol - 40% / 80 proof

Color - Dark watermelon red

Nose - Candied strawberries with hints of rhubarb and citrus

Taste - Cheekily unsweet, the gin notes cut through the strawberry notes and put their foot down and then flow into the fresh strawberry and rhubarb

Finish - The strawberry and rhubarb linger with the citrus and juniper notes

Best Enjoyed - With a flavored tonic, Barker and Quinn or Fevertree

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Cocktail of the Week #5 - Sazerac

This week's cocktail is showing love to the new released Resurrection Rye, awesome American style rye so I made the quintessential American cocktail, the Sazerac.

SAZERAC

2 oz (60mL) Resurrection Rye Whisky

1/3 oz (15mL) Frostbite Syrup Rich Simple Syrup

2 dashes of Bittered Sling Suisse Cherry Bitters

Glass - Old Fashioned rinsed with Okanagan Spirits Taboo Absinthe

Method - Stir all ingredients with ice and strain

Garnish - lemon twist

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #259 - Dubh Glas Fire in the Sky

DISTILLERY NOTES

For the discerning whisky connoisseur this Cask Strength was aged in a 100% ex-Bourbon barrel and finished in a Canadian Port Style fortified wine barrel.  This complex whisky offers notes of pineapple, coconut, honeycomb and lemon meringue. 

Our whisky uses 100% malted barley, is doubled distilled and aged for no less than three years in oak.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I am sure that Stevely is a closet rocker with these names. The Dubh Glas Fire in The Sky is a cask strength single malt aged in ex bourbon and finished in Canadian Port Wine style. I love the depth and complexity that the classic single malt and then the balanced addition of sweet red fruit sweetness.

Alcohol - 65.4% / 130.8 proof

Color - Deep burnt copper

Nose - Classic Dubh Glas single malt, bourbony vanilla bomb is complimented by a rich off sweet red fruit, light citrus and aromatics

Taste - Vanilla, oak spice, rich and tongue coating is balanced out by rich red fruit, hints of citrus notes and long meringue finish

Finish - Vanilla, spicy oak, stewed red fruit and textural meringue

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #258 - Resurrection Spirits Rye

DISTILLERY NOTES

Our Rye Whisky is made from 100% BC grown rye grain that is twice-distilled to create our lively white spirit and aged in second-fill Bourbon and Cabernet casks for three years.  It is then carefully blended and reduced to a perfect sipping strength of 42% ABV.
The layered complexities drawn from the two barrels yield a depth of flavour, providing a truly unique interpretation of Canadian Rye Whisky.
This expression of rye can be sipped on its own, over ice or combined with your favourite ingredients to make an exquisite whisky cocktail.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Been very excited for this one from Resurrection Spirits partly because I love when distilleries age up enough to release whisky and secondly I have huge respect for bartenders following their passion. This is 100% rye, double distilled and then aged in ex bourbon and Cabernet casks (knew it). This gives this one a very unique notes, not a huge spice bomb like others from rich, complex and balanced. Going to be making a sazerac with this for sure.

Alcohol - 42% / 84 proof

Color - Deep burnt copper

Nose - Soft rye spice, complex barrel oak, and hints of dry vanilla

Taste -Soft and rich rye, not a spice bomb; balanced with that rich oak and wine notes from the Cabernet barrels. Complex butterscotch and toffee, hints of vanilla and then that bold rye.

Finish - Deep rye notes just stick with you along with the red wine depth

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #257 - Marrow Vermouth Bianco

DISTILLERY NOTES

The botanicals used to make this were chamomile, sweet cicely, orris root, linden blossom, pineapple weed and dried lemon peel. They were macerated in a multi vintage blend of Pinot Gris and apple distillate for 2 months. After blending, it was aged in neutral oak barrel over the 2019-2020 winter and sweetened with organic sugar in the spring.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I love Shawn from Marrow Vermouth, creating fantastic drinking vermouths. This Bianco is just that, only 150 bottles created; Pinot Gris and apple distillate base infused and aged with terroir driven botanicals. Gorgeous aromatics, amazing bright palate with just a hint of fruity sweetness; drink on the rocks with a slice of lemon

Alcohol - 16% / 32 proof

Color - Cloudy peach

Nose - High notes of botanicals, sweet cicily, orris root, hints of fruity apple and wine notes

Taste -Balanced fruit forward notes with drying botanicals. Apple, peach fruit is complimented by bright, high notes of chamomile, sweet cicely and lemon peel

Finish - Dry with a hint of sweetness on the back palate, apple and botanicals are the predominant flavors

Best Enjoyed - Neat or with tonic

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #256 - Bruinwood Distillery Creme de Cassis

DISTILLERY NOTES

A liqueur made by infusing our Aquasen vodka with local blackcurrants. It features a sweet, yet tart, berry flavour, and a hint of spice.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I’m starting to think that BC has some of the best cassis in the world. This example from Bruinwood Distillery is another great one. One the nose, fresh black currants that flow to rich fruit from deep, stewed berries to tart and acidic high notes. Another amazing one for your Kir royales.

Alcohol - 25% / 50 proof

Color - Deep purple

Nose - Fresh blackcurrants, rich and juicy but also with a green hint

Taste - Complex rich, deep stewed blackcurrants and bright, tart and acidic high notes and everything in between

Finish - Not cloying at all, the acidic blackcurrants sings on your palate for a while

Best Enjoyed - Kir Royale

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #255 - Dubh Glas Smoke on the Water

DISTILLERY NOTES

Aged in a 100% ex-Bourbon custom made small barrel and finished in a peated quarter cask from Scotland this whisky features notes of rich vanilla, toffee, sugar cookies and a subtle hint of smoke on the finish.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I am loving these finished whiskies in BC. This one is from The Dubh Glas Distillery, aged in ex bourbon casks and then finished in Scottish peated quarter casks. On the nose, it’s all vanilla and toffee but then on the palate it explodes with smoke; balanced with the richness of the vanillas and butterscotch. It’s a s’more over a campfire down by river.

Alcohol - 46% / 92 proof

Color - Medium copper

Nose - Vanilla, toffee and spicy oak

Taste - The smoke gets you as soon as it hits your tongue, dry, rich campfire, this is heavily balanced by that ex bourbon cask notes of vanilla, toffee and butterscotch

Finish - The vanilla lingers with the dry campfire smoke

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #254 - Bruinwood Distillery Plains Vodka

DISTILLERY NOTES

Swap your normal vodka with our pleasantly grassy, slightly vanilla flavoured Plains vodka and elevate your cocktails to the next level.

Made from British Columbian wheat, malted barley, honey and bison grass.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I’m not usually excited by vodka but Bruinwood Distillery take on Bison Grass Vodka is fantastic. Aromatic bison grass is balanced perfectly with the sweet wheat base. Just the slightest hint of honey just rounds it out nicely. Serve with apple juice and lime

Alcohol - 40% / 80 proof

Color - Clear

Nose - Bold bison grass, sweet wheat and hints of vanilla

Taste - Aromatic and fragrant bison grass, sweet wheat and then hints of vanilla and slight honey sweetness.

Finish - Bison grass and vanilla stays with you, dry and fragrant

Best Enjoyed - With apple juice and a lime squeeze

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #253 - Stillhead Distillery Single Malt

DISTILLERY NOTES

This is a single cask release, made from 100% BC malted barley aged in an ex-bourbon first fill Jim Beam barrel for 2 years. Then finished in a char 3 almost new Hungarian Oak barrel for 1 year, providing notes of honey, cinnamon, toasted oak, and cocoa.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

The second whisky released by Stillhead Distillery before Xmas, this one is a classic based single malt aged for 2 years in ex Jim Beam barrels and then finished for a year in almost new, char 3 Hungarian Oak which is where this changes everything. I am trying to recollect when and if I ever tasted a Hungarian Oak whisky; this oak bring huge cinnamon spice balanced with honey, toffee and butterscotch, it just reminds me of bailing hay in Autumn.

Alcohol - 45% / 90 proof

Color - Dark copper

Nose - Oaky toffee, subtle smoky wood, brown sugar and hints of vanilla

Taste - Texture for days, dusty hay from the single malt notes play so well with the dry oaky vanilla, toffee and butterscotch that come from that Hungarian Oak. This needs to be played with more.

Finish - Spicy oak and vanillas with a huge butterscotch note

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #252 - Dubh Glas Lockdown Single Malt

DISTILLERY NOTES

To continue our pandemic series of whiskies, Lockdown is our signature style aged in a 100% ex-Bourbon barrel.  Highlighting the sweetness of corn, vanilla, caramel and ripe melon notes this whisky is light and sweet.

Our whisky uses 100% malted barley, is doubled distilled and aged for no less than three years in oak.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I think this distillery is the unsung whisky distillery in BC. Stevely from The Dubh Glas Distillery makes whiskies that sell out in days, meaning I never get to see them here on the island. But this little number was an amazing Xmas gift. 100% ex Bourbon American Oak, just a huge vanilla oak bomb; super rich palate with corny sweetness, vanilla and structure oak. Looking forward to delving further into the samples I got

Alcohol - 46% / 92 proof

Color - Dark wheat

Nose - Spicy oak, vanilla, dry spice

Taste - Rich grain profile is the back bone to the bold vanilla, spiced oak structure and fruity stone fruit notes

Finish - Vanilla and fruity stonefruit lingering with hints of oak

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #251 - Bruinwood Distillery White Apple Rye Spirit

DISTILLERY NOTES

An odd mashbill of rye, wheat and apples, distilled and then laid down in a old rye barrel for 1 week before bottling.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Super unique expression from Bruinwood Distillery. A wheat, rye, apple spirit that is further infused post distillation. It’s a trickster on the nose, giving you high spice from the rye and wheat then this aromatic apple lingering; this continues on the palate. Balancing between aromatic white dog and fragrant apple notes. This would be a fun cocktail ingredient for sure

Alcohol - 40% / 80 proof

Color - Light apple flesh

Nose - A mix of spicy rye, sweet wheat and fragrant apple notes. Raw but finessed

Taste - White dog style rye and wheat is very evident but light and fragrant, not bullish and the apple just seems to wrangle them into place. Leaving aromatic apple with those beautiful grain notes

Finish - Apple eau de vie plays well with the rye and wheat, long and lingering

Best Enjoyed - Play around with cocktails with this one

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BC Spirits "Spirits a Day" #250 - Stillhead Distillery Rye Whisky

DISTILLERY NOTES

This whisky was a mash bill of 80% unmalted rye and 20% malted barley. It is a combination of two ex-bourbon casks, that were aged for 2 years and finished for 1 year in small ex-maple syrup American oak barrels, and a small ex-port Hungarian oak barrel. The small barrels were then “married” together to provide the best of both worlds; the sweet vanilla, toffee, toasted oak flavour from American oak, and the spicy, cinnamon, cocoa notes from the European oak. Together they bring out the best of the spicy rye.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

This is a very special bottle of BC Rye from Stillhead Distillery. Super limited. A blend of unmalted rye (80%) and malted barley (20%). Then it’s aged in a mixture of Ex bourbon barrels, maple syrup and port barrels; all this culminates in a kind of cross cultural thinking melange of flavors. Classic Canadian rye, aromatic québécois maple and European port notes. This is an amazing first whisky release from them, great work team.

Alcohol - 45% / 90 proof

Color - Burnt copper, deep almost red brick

Nose - Bold oak notes, hints of smoked wood, and then a deep dried red fruit tone

Taste - Classic Canadian rye spice pops off the tongue, then flows through to maple bark, deep red fruit port notes and finishes with complex oak notes

Finish - Spice, oaky vanilla, red fruitiness for days

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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