Vancouver's first micro distillery

[blind drunk]

The usual gin, vodka and the nice copper. The Apothecary Series sounds interesting to me -

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[Bushman]

Looks like fun, might have to book a couple nights on bonus time at our condo in downtown Vancouver and pay it a visit.

[blind drunk]

Me too. I think I just found an excuse to visit the big smoke (which I love).

[rumbuff]

planning to go downtown on thursday, might have to swing by! Worth keeping an eye on.

[ohyeahyeah]

It nice to see the provinces finally relaxing their laws to allow micro distilliers considering the overwhelming success of the micro brewery industry. That being said it would be nice to see the federal goverment follow suit by amending the laws regarding whisky aging. Instead of changing the current canadian whisky class i think it would help the upstarts if there was added a class for "craft whisky". Unlike regular Canadian Whisky which must be aged in small wood(700litre barrels or less) for no less then three years "craft whisky" would be exclusively small batch run whisky's aged in barrels 53gals or less with no or very little mininum aging time allowing the sale of white whisky as well as small barrel aged whisky like the American artisian's are doing.

Strange enough the Canadian whisky aging law was actually brought in to push small distilliers out of the business since aging is the biggest overhead cost and goverment suspected the smaller outfits of selling large amounts of untaxed booze.