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  • Vodkow Stock at LCBO

    by Claire Mills
    Vodkow is now available as part of a general listing at the LCBO across Ontario in 750ml bottles for $36.00. Find out how many Vodkow bottles are a...

  • The case for fair taxation of Ontario Craft Spirits

    by Omid McDonald
    The tax per litre of alcohol in spirits is 7X more than VQA wine.

  • The milk man arrives

    by Omid McDonald
    We get our milk permeate from the Parmalat plant an hour away from us in Winchester. While we only need 6000L of permeate, the only option was deli...

  • Let the grass roll

    by Omid McDonald
    Just as temperatures started breaking 100 year records, the landscapers showed up. They started by paving and boy did they suffer.  Must have been ...

  • 100 joints on Canada Day

    by Omid McDonald
    When it came time to design a heating and cooling system for our fermenters, we were fortunate to be connected with Kevin who works at the NRC. Whe...

  • Shout Out to House of Kinsip

    by Omid McDonald
    Even though I'm celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary, I couldn't resist getting some work in.  Fortunately, work involves visiting a fine distil...

  • Higher education at Cornell

    by Omid McDonald
    I was emailing with Nicolas at Carl about getting a part for our still when he mentioned that Carl is co-hosting a distilling workshop at Cornell U...

  • The tax women cometh

    by Omid McDonald
    Alcohol taxes brought in $12B into Canadian federal and provincial government coffers last year.  The government doesn’t leave a drop untaxed. Befo...

  • Tower of power

    by Omid McDonald
    The summer has brought us a student, Kyle, who is in his second year at Queens Engineering. We put Kyle to work cleaning the still before assemblin...

  • The final flashing

    by Omid McDonald
    Whoever said "the devil is in the details" had it right. A whole building can be erected in the same amount of time it takes to do the trim. For ex...

  • Cleaning out the garage

    by Omid McDonald
    Today is a big day. Our still and fermenters are moving out of my garage and into the distillery. The moment my wife has been waiting for. Neal arr...

  • A bulletproof floor

    by Omid McDonald
    After doing a lot of research about how to cover the concrete in the production area, I decided that polyurethane is the way to go. It's impervious...