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This overproof gin packs a wallop. Bold, delicious orange peel and juicier citrus strike first and are later joined by mint and ginger, complementing a lip-smacking oily body. Everything is well-integrated and delicious. The gin’s pronounced flavors allow it to shine in cocktails, but it does perfectly well when sipped neat out of the glass… if you can take the heat.

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The Power of Female Mentoring

When our Founder and Owner, Karen Hoskin, started Montanya Distillers, she was often one of the only women in the room. It came with a lot of misguided assumptions—most people assumed she was anyone but the owner and founder—and required that she spend a lot of time proving her expertise before she could get down to business.

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Barreled Botanicals

Do you love gin and are thirsty for more? Are you a die-hard brown spirits fan that needs a push to the botanically influenced side of the spirits world? Barreled gins are the answer to the question you never knew needed asking, and these five are some of our favorites!

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Alcohol in WNC

Here’s the way those good times roll. As we have done in the previous two years, we are publishing a map of the 18 counties of Western North Carolina, with Jennifer’s listing of all breweries, wineries, distilleries, and cideries dotting this corner of the state.

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Hot days, breezy drinks

Every season is a good season for cocktails. But while winter begs for slow-sipping, stirred drinks with warm spices like clove and allspice or shrubs from vinegared preserves, summer calls for brighter flavors — the sharp acidity of citrus, melons and berries fresh from the harvest, shaken until ice cold.

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