Contract Distilling & Co-Packing

THIS INFORMATION IS FOR THOSE WHO WANT A PRODUCT DEVELOPED FOR THEM,
OR AN EXISTING RECIPE PRODUCED ACCORDING TO SPECIFICATIONS.

Looking to start your own distillery, but use our facilities and gear to do the work yourself? That information is on our distillery incubation page.

ONE OF ONTARIO’S TOP CO-PACKERS

We have worked with dozens of Ontario spirits and ready-to-drink spirits beverage brands. We can provide turnkey access to online, direct delivery, and direct-to-licensee sales. Our contract distilling services allow you to dip your toes into the marketplace, and focus entirely on building your brand and sales networks, while avoiding the cost and red-tape of starting a full-fledged distillery.

We work with our contract bottlers on a batch-by-batch basis, which minimizes your downside business risk.


“At Farmhouse Spirits, we were looking for a contract distiller to develop our unique carrot-based spirits. Don and team partnered with us and brought his expertise and innovation to help us bring our concept to reality.”

– Jennifer Quick, Founder

Contact [email protected] for details

RECIPE & PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

We can make spirits from anything with sugar in it. We have significant experience working with non-traditional spirits inputs. Each recipe and product is unique, and we will work with you one-on-one to develop yours. We can work with very small batch sizes, suitable for LCBO product submissions. We offer flexible pricing models.

Most often used by:

Spirits or ready-to-drink beverage brands with a product idea, but needing the technical expertise to get it right

Farmers looking to turn excess/waste produce into an alternative revenue stream

New entrants to the Ontario market, to make test batches for LCBO sample submission or tasting panels

International spirits brands looking for a Canadian producer to avoid the complications of shipping and importing spirits to Canada

CONTRACT DISTILLING

Whether we’ve helped you to make your recipe, or it’s one you brought to us, we can produce it to your specifications on a batch-by-batch basis. Our customizable services include:

  • Mashing
  • Fermenting
  • Stripping
  • Finishing
  • Flavour infusion
  • Cutting heads & tails
  • Barrel aging
  • Blending (spirits and juices)
  • Dilution
  • Bottling, labeling, and boxing
  • Storage in our bonded excise warehouse
  • Label and packaging legal review
  • LCBO lab testing
  • Packing and shipping of bulk & consumer orders


“Working with Last Straw has been an exceptional experience. Launching a new brand is challenging in every way imaginable but with Don and his team taking care of the entire bottling process, we are able to focus our efforts on strategy and marketing. The team at Last Straw has been helpful and supportive since our first phone call with them and we look forward to growing Green Owl with their knowledge and experience supporting us throughout our journey.”

– Carmen Sandor, Founder

 

Depending on your needs, we can offer the spirits for sale through our distillery retail store, support your direct-to-consumer online sales, assist with LCBO listing applications, and support your direct-to-licensee (bar and restaurant) sales.

Email [email protected] to start the conversation.

CONTRACT DISTILLING

Whether we’ve helped you to make your recipe, or it’s one you brought to us, we can produce it to your specifications on a batch-by-batch basis. Our customizable services include:
  • Mashing
  • Fermenting
  • Stripping
  • Finishing
  • Flavour infusion
  • Cutting heads & tails
  • Barrel aging
  • Blending (spirits and juices)
  • Dilution
  • Bottling, labeling, and boxing
  • Storage in our bonded excise warehouse
  • Label and packaging legal review
  • LCBO lab testing
  • Packing and shipping of bulk & consumer orders
Depending on your needs, we can offer the spirits for sale through our distillery retail store, support your direct-to-consumer online sales, assist with LCBO listing applications, and support your direct-to-licensee (bar and restaurant) sales.

Email [email protected] to start the conversation.