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Here's a list of the Oregon distillers. Not sure how the count of 30 distilleries came about though. My count is 17, but there should be 20 by years end. There are a half dozen others in the planning stage.

Artisan Spirits
Ryan Csanky
Erik Martin
1227 SE Stark St.
Portland, OR 97214
Cell: 503.781.2357
ryan@artisan-spirits.com
http://www.artisan-spirits.com/

Bendistillery
1470 NE 1st Street, #800
Bend, OR 97701
Office: 541.318.0200
Jim Bendis - CEO
Alan Dietrich - National Sales Manager
alan@bendistillery.com
http://www.bendistillery.com/home.html

Brandy Peak Distillery
18526 Tetley Road
Brookings, Oregon
Office: 541.469.0194
David Nowlin - Distiller
distiller@brandypeak.com
http://www.brandypeak.com/

Cascade Peak Spirits
P.O. Box 1198
Ashland, Oregon 97520
541.482.3160
Diane Paulson - CEO
diane@cascadepeakspirits.com
David Eliasen - Vice Pres./Distiller
http://www.cascadepeakspirits.com/

Clear Creek Distillery
2389 NW Wilson Street
Portland, OR 97210
Stephen McCarthy ? Owner / Presidente
Office: 503.248.9470
http://clearcreekdistillery.com/

Dolmen Distillery
P.O. Box 732
McMinnville, Oregon 97128
Anders Johansen - Distiller
dolmendistillery@comcast.net
http://www.dolmen.arbre.us/


Highball Distillery
610 SE 10th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
Michael Heavener
Michael Klinglesmith
highballdistillery1@gmail.com
http://highballdistillery.blogspot.com/

House Spirits
2025 SE 7th
Portland, Oregon 97214
Office: 503.235.3174
Lee Medoff - Commissar
Christian Krogstad - Sales & Marketing
medoyeff@medoyeff.com
http://housespirits.com/House%20Spirits.html


Hood River Distillery
660 Riverside Drive
Hood River, OR 97031
Office: 541.386.1588
Rob Van Volkinburg - Northwest Sales Manager
robv@hrdspirits.com
Office: 503.574.3693
Mobile: 503.970.7079

Indio Spirits Inc.
7110 SW Fir Loop Suite 240
Tigard, Oregon 97223
Office: 503.620.0313
John Ufford - CEO and head pooh-bah
john@indiospirits.com
Bob Turner - Sales and Marketing
http://www.indiospirits.com/

Integrity Spirits
909 SE Yamhill
Portland, Oregon 97214
Office: 503.729.9794
Kieran Sienkiewicz ? Distiller
Rich Phillips ? Sales and Marketing
integrity@comcast.net
http://www.integrityspirits.com/

Liquid Vodka
Warren, OR 97053
Cory Zonich
czonich@liquidvodka.com
http://www.liquidvodka.com/

McMenamins Edgefield Distillery
2126 S.W. Halsey
Troutdale, OR 97060
503.669.8610 ext 344
http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=76&id=426

New Deal Distillery
Portland, OR 97214
Tom Burkleaux
Matt Vanwinkle
info@newdealdistillery.com
http://www.newdealdistillery.com/
Moving to new digs soon.

Ransom Distillery
845 NE 5th St.
McMinnville, OR 97128
Tad Seestedt - Distiller / Winemaker
Office: 503.883-2089
tad@ransomspirits.com
http://www.ransomspirits.com/
Distillery in Portland. Winery in McMinnville.

Rogue Spirits
1339 NW Flanders
Portland, Oregon 97209
Office: 503.241.3800
Gary Fleshman ? Distillery Manager
gary@rogue.com
cell: 541.961.5265
John Couchot ? Newport Distiller
http://www.roguespirits.com/

Sub Rosa Spirits
2025 SE 7th
Portland, Oregon 97214
Mike Sherwood - Distiller / Owner
503.476.2808 [cell]
sub-rosa@comcast.net
http://www.subrosaspirits.com
Office is in Dundee. Distillery is in Portland.

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Hi there. Mike Sherwood here with Sub Rosa Spirits. Another one of the young turk distillers here in Oregon. I make two culinary inspired vodkas. A Tarragon anda Saffron infused vodka. I cut my teeth making wine at the Sineann winery, then we recruited by Rogue to run their rum distillery and build them a new distillery on the coast.

My two infusions are made from fresh herbs and spices, hence the true flavors and natural colors. Each of 8 spices are infused separately for the Saffron and then blended. Part culinary art, part alchemy. The Tarragon uses fresh tarragon leaves, a wee dram of fennel and a touch of mint.

The Saffron vodka has notes of toasted cumin on the nose, a lemony mid-palate of coriander wrapped in the aromatics of saffron with grace notes of ginger, black peppercorn and red chilies. This infused vodka is as complex as a gin with 8 spices making up a m�lange that echoes India and Asia.

I make these distillates one 50 case lot at a time. Each bottle is identified by a batch number and year produced. They are available in Oregon, Washington state, California, Washington DC and soon in France.

My new distillates are part of the movement towards culinary inspired cocktails and are made to mix. http://www.subrosaspirits.com

Jamie Boudreau formerly of the Vessel bar in Seattle liked 'em : Since the bottles say that they are vodka, I guess I?ve got to believe it, but I?d want to give these spirits a different classification altogether, as they are that unique. http://spiritsandcocktails.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/sub-rosa-the-magic-esdragon/

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Hi Dan. Here is a story Bill Owens of the American Distillers Institute posted about the Oregon craft distilling scene for his weekly distilling newsletter in January a year ago. A lot has happened since then with new distilleries coming into production, but it gives you a sense of this point in time in our history..

D�j� vu with Oregon micro-distilleries

There is a sense of D�j� vu going on in Oregon. After two decades, it's happening again. In the last half of the eighties, the ?good beer? movement took hold in the quest for a better beer. Staring in the seventies, the Oregon wine industry put its roots down in the Willamette Valley. By the nineties, there were hundreds of small wineries making wine that rivaled the Old World. Here in the 21?st Century, small scale artisan-made distilled spirits are poised to remake the Oregon beverage landscape like its siblings, beer and wine.

On a recent trip to Portland American Distillers Institute pooh-bah Bill Owen was lead on a Portland metro area distillery tour from Troutdale to McMinnville in search of magic elixirs. Oregon has experienced a Renaissance in wine and beer making and now it is also undergoing a minor explosion in distilling. In the United States there are eighty-eight craft distilleries and Oregon leads the pack with nine with another four distilleries set to open in 2007. Only California, and Michigan have more craft distilleries. The July 2006 edition of GQ Magazine featured a story on the Portland distilling scene calling them ?The New Bootleggers?. In October 2007 Food & Wine magazine wrote about all the distilleries making whiskey in Oregon. Clearly something is going on here.

Here are a few of the players.
Brandy Peak, located in the Southern Oregon coastal town of Bandon is the nation?s only wood-fired distillery and has produced grappa and brandies for years. Portland based Clear Creek is the granddaddy of Oregon craft distillers with 20 years in the business, making world-class Pear brandy and a line-up that includes eau-de-vie flavored with Douglas Fir to whiskey made with Widmer Brothers grains. These guys know how to distill fruit and retain the flavors. Central Oregon?s Bendistillery produces gin using local high desert juniper berries and lava filtered vodka for its tasting room and national distribution. The newest generation of craft distilleries includes House Spirits, New Deal, Rogue, Ransom Spirits, Indio, Dolmen and of course, McMenamins Edgefield Distillery, located in Troutdale.

Flavored vodka producer Indio Spirits has shifted their production from Portland to Cottage Grove where Side Pocket operate a distillery, cocktail mix production and bonded space for importers of various spirits. A new distillery named Highball has leased the former Indio space in Southeast Portland and is currently working on their TTB permit. Fermented honey distiller Dolmen and fellow distillery Sub Rosa are looking for larger digs out in Yamhill County but with dozens and dozens of wineries in the area, older buildings suitable for production and even a hip tasting room are hard to find. Integrity Spirits will occupy the old Yamhill Pub space in the heart of Southeast Portland by summertime. Looks like a distilling zone is emerging in Southeast Portland with House Spirits, New Deal, Highball and Integrity Spirits all angling for a piece of the pie.

The product of choice that many new craft distillers started with is vodka. It?s relatively easy to produce and though supposedly flavorless, Oregon distillers added their own subtle twists by filtering the spirits through huge tubes of activated charcoal like the Russian distilleries, or through crushed lava rock and limestone; all in search of a subtle flavors and smoothness. Indio Spirits has four flavored vodkas; a marionberry, a lemongrass/lime, a blood orange, a wasabi plus a straight up neutral vodka. After a few dozen variants, Rogue House of Spirits in Newport, Ore. is about to introduce their wasabi/ginger vodka. House Spirits started with its very smooth Medoyeff Vodka. New Deal has three levels of vodka including their Hot Monkey pepper vodka. This summer Sub Rosa Spirits is introducing a delightfully herbal and light Tarragon vodka and a boldly spiced Saffron vodka that is as complex as a gin, with eight spices blended to make a distillate that echoes both India and Asia. Both are 90 proof Molecular gastronomy meets ethanol alchemy. These flavored vodkas make exciting drinks, but are good simply over ice as well.

It?s not all about vodka though. Oregon craft distilleries are making grappa, gins, brandies, whiskeys, eau-de-vies and rums. Of particular note is House Spirits Krogstad Aquavit with a touch of caraway, anise and cardamom. Exquisite. Rogue Spirits Dark Rum is quite nice, more akin to bourbon than rum in many ways and has picked up a number of awards and rave reviews; and Dolmen Distillery?s Worker Bee is one of the few commercially distilled meads in the world. This rare distillate carries a hint of white flowers and honey, but with a nice blast of fire at the end. Local distillers are also working on whiskeys using all Oregon ingredients. Oregon barley, fermented and distilled and put into Oregon oak barrels. Oregon is becoming somewhat of an incubator for rum distilleries, with 4 distilleries producing decent dark rum.

Distillers are adding local juniper berries or spruce bows to their gin to make a product with a unique regional story. Look for Absinthe like products, more rum, extreme juniper gins and exotic flavored vodkas from these distillers in the new year.

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