By Richard Thomas Rating: B Located on Granville Island, Vancouver, Liberty Distillery is a newcomer to Canadian whiskey. The distillery opened its doors in November 2013, and released its first whiskey product only last month. Yet in doing so, Liberty Distillery created quite a novel expression in its Railspur No. 1, named for the Granville Island district. First, much of ...

By Richard Thomas While illegal moonshining dominates the airwaves, it’s legal moonshine that has a growing presence on liquor store and bar shelves. Yet purists object to the very idea of any product made for retail sale being labeled “moonshine,” insisting that the term applies only to illegally made spirits. According to them, anything with taxes paid and calling itself ...

By Richard Thomas The Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining:How to Make and Drink Whiskey is not really a technical manual on how to make whiskey, although a primer on home distilling/micro-distilling is part of this short book. Instead, this is really more of a memoir by the proprietors of Kings County Distillery, David Haskell and Colin Spoelman, a ...

By Richard Thomas Vancouver’s Liberty Distillery released their newest spirit today, and their first whiskey. Railspur No. 1 is a triple-distilled in a single copper pot still from malt white whiskey, and bottled at 47% abv. The malt used is 100% organic barley grown in Armstrong, British Columbia. Liberty opened its doors in November 2013, and the Railspur No. 1 ...

The Basics of White Lightning: What Is It And How to Enjoy It By Richard Thomas The growing popularity of moonshine first caught media attention several years ago, when moonshine consumption and even distillation caught on with hipsters. A few years later came white lightning-based reality television, such as The Discovery Channel’s Moonshiners. Now moonshine has a major presence in ...