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Sheringham Distillery - Seaside Gin
Sheringham Distillery - Seaside Gin

A smash hit can be a double-edged sword. Look at ‘80s rock bands and their drippy power ballads. The euphoria of financial success from mass commercial appeal slowly turns to torture. Day in, day out, they’ll play that song ad nauseum for the rest of their professional career. Do you honestly think Foreigner still wants to know what love is? Then, by contrast, there are hits written away from a major label, and voila, it connects on an entirely different level.

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Noteworthy Navy Strength Gin
Noteworthy Navy Strength Gin

When Stevely decided to bottle a 57% expression of his Noteworthy gin, he wasn’t planning on leading the way for Canadian distilleries to make a navy strength gin. Instead, he was thinking about his success in making cask strength whiskies.

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The Newfoundland Distillery Company Seaweed Gin
The Newfoundland Distillery Company Seaweed Gin

In 2017, the Newfoundland Distillery Company in Clarke’s Beach on Conception Bay began making gin to bridge the gap while their whisky matured. After a tenure as a chef in Ottawa cooking for high-profile names, Carter had returned to Newfoundland. His experience in the kitchen honed his approach to the culinary arts – making humble seasonal ingredients pop on the palate. Gin was already in his culinary DNA.

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Willibald Farm Distillery Gin
Willibald Farm Distillery Gin

Yellow, it is said, is the colour of divinity and madness. Many people assumed those qualities had possessed the very young Cam Formica and brothers Jordan and Nolan van der Heyden when they opened a distillery with only an aged gin on the shelf and a bright yellow label to attract customer’s attention.

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Lone Pine Distilling’s Gateway & Earl Grey Gins
Lone Pine Distilling’s Gateway & Earl Grey Gins

Edmonton has the nickname “Gateway to the North, and now bartenders can shake it into cocktails. Back in the day, the North Saskatchewan River that twists through the city proved a significant waterway for Canada’s fur trade. Indeed, two warring companies, the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, occasionally came to blows while paddling their wares through Edmonton.

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Stillhead Wild Blackberry Gin
Stillhead Wild Blackberry Gin

From Stillhead Distillery, on the southern outskirts of Duncan, BC, comes a richly fruity gin unlike any other. Although this region is not exactly wilderness, The Island is wild, rugged country, where even city folk live pretty close to the land and its wildlife. So, it makes sense that the main component of this gin is wild blackberries harvested locally by hand.

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Tasting reviewsBlair PhillipsStillhead Distillery, Vancouver Island, Vancouver Island Distillery, British Columbia, British Columbia Distillery, British Columbia Gin, Gin, Flavoured Gin, Canadian Spirits, Canadian Distillery, Canadian Distilleries
Day 11 – Eleven Pipers Piping Gin
Day 11 – Eleven Pipers Piping Gin

If your true love buys you eleven pipers piping for Christmas, before you reach for the earplugs, take a minute to listen. The harmonies of the pipers united in song is the very essence of great gin. Then, having savoured the pipers’ aural thrills, put the earplugs back in and dream of the palatable indulgences these 11 gins will bestow on you and your true love.

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Day 4: Calling Birds & Seaweed Gin
Day 4: Calling Birds & Seaweed Gin

Canada’s immense land area has produced a selection of gins that explore the thousands of flavours that grow coast to coast. For distilleries near the sea, this includes taking flavours from the temperamental oceans and taming those flavours into its gins.

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Tasting reviewsBlair PhillipsGin, Seaweed Gin, Seaweed, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Distillerie du St. Laurent, St. Laurent Distillery, Sheringham Distillery, Still Fired Distillery, Botanicals, Canadian Spirits, Canadian Distilleries, Canadian Distillery
Rewarding the Crow with Spruce Tips
Rewarding the Crow with Spruce Tips

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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Tasting reviewsBlair PhillipsRaging Crow, Gin, Nova Scotia