Custom Spirits & Cask Shares

ALL IN PRICING IS ESTIMATED AT CAD $45-55 PER 750 ML BOTTLE, HOWEVER ACTUAL COST WILL VARY DEPENDING ON NUMEROUS FACTORS SUCH AS MASH BILL, CASK STRENGTH, CASK TYPE, LENGTH OF AGING, AND BOTTLING STRENGTH.

BESPOKE SINGLE CASK WHISKY, RUM, & BRANDY

It’s like having your own distillery, only with better equipment, and without the worry of the police knocking down your door. Here’s how it works:

 

  • You pay up front for distilling services, to cover the cost of making the spirit.
  • Choose your mash bill, cask, barrel char, and cask strength – which we’re happy to help with
  • You can make the spirit yourself with our guidance, you can help us make the spirit, or we can make it for you – for any or all of the steps of mashing, stripping, finishing, diluting, and casking
  • We store and age the spirit, and you pay an annual fee for storage.
  • Each year on the anniversary of casking, we check on how it’s progressing by doing a barrel pull and comparing it to last year’s. You can be there, or we can mail it to you within Canada.
  • You decide when the spirit is ready, and what the bottling strength will be.
  • You can bottle it yourself, help us bottle it, or we can do it for you.
  • You buy the bottles from us at the LCBO minimum price for spirits ($28.75 / 750 ml in 2022)

 

Standard pricing starts at $4,350 + HST per cask + $50 per year aging + LCBO minimum price per bottle, which includes:

 

  • All consulting services
  • All ingredients – grain, water, yeast, enzymes
  • All steps of production, including aging and bottling
  • Use of one of our standard 200 litre casks (once-used Bourbon), and re-casking if necessary or desired
  • Annual barrel pull
  • Dilution and bottling in our then-standard bottle, stopper, and label with your custom spirit name
  • LCBO lab testing fees if required
  • Finished spirit made available at

 

Optional add-ons priced on a case-by-case basis include:

 

  • Non-standard casks, such as virgin oak, or finishing
  • Custom labels
  • Custom bottles, stoppers, and other packaging
  • Postage to mail annual barrel pulls
  • Keep the barrel

CASK SHARE PROGRAM

Buy in to a cask of spirits in 1/10 increments. Round up some spirit fanatic friends to share the journey with, or let us connect you with a group of folks who love spirits as much as you do. Here’s how it works:

  • Choose what spirit or mash bill you’d like to invest in
  • You pay up front for your % of the distilling services, to cover the cost of making the spirit.
  • The group cooperates to choose the cask, barrel char, and cask strength – which we’re happy to help with
  • The group can make the spirit with our guidance, can help us make the spirit, or we can make it for y’all – for any or all of the steps of mashing, stripping, finishing, diluting, and casking
  • We store and age the spirit, and you pay your % of the annual fee for storage.
  • Each year on the anniversary of casking, we check on how it’s progressing by doing a barrel pull and comparing it to last year’s. You can be there, or we can mail it to you within Canada.
  • The group decides when the spirit is ready, and what the bottling strength will be.
  • The group can bottle it, help us bottle it, or we can do it for you.
  • You buy your % of the finished bottles from us at the LCBO minimum price for spirits ($28.75 / 750 ml in 2022)


Standard pricing starts at $435 + HST per 1/10 share + $5 per year aging + LCBO minimum price per bottle of finished spirit, which includes:

  • All consulting services
  • All ingredients – grain, water, yeast, enzymes
  • All steps of production, including aging and bottling
  • Use of one of our standard 200 litre casks (once-used), and re-casking if necessary or desired
  • Annual barrel pull
  • Dilution and bottling in our then-standard bottle, stopper, and label with your custom spirit name
  • LCBO lab testing fees if required
  • Finished spirit made available at


Optional add-ons priced on a case-by-case basis include:

  • Non-standard casks, such as virgin oak, or finishing
  • Custom labels, bottles, stoppers, and other packaging (the whole cask must be packaged the same)
  • Postage to mail annual barrel pulls (on an individual basis)
  • Keep the barrel

Custom Spirits & cask shares

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.