Blinking Owl Distillery
LET’S GET SPIRITUAL!
The Blinking Owl is the very first craft distillery in Orange County. We also are one of the first distilleries in the state of California to hold the Type 74 Craft Distillers License allowing us to operate our tasting room and sell a few bottles. We make Vodka, Gin, several types of Whiskey, and the Scandinavian spirit, Aquavit.
SPIRIT behind the Owl…
We are locavores, grain nerds, and control freaks, so we decided to actually make our booze the long way: from grain rather than the pre-made spirit. We mill, mash, ferment, distill, and barrel age it in the case of whiskey. We source as much grain as possible from California farms.
Founding GREAT Grandfather: The Founder, Brian Christenson, had a bootlegging great-grandfather, Fred P. Armbrust. Fred had a still on his dairy farm hidden in the basement behind secret passageways. He would covertly provide his local farmers with his “good spirits.” Brian’s dream is to carry on Fred’s passion by providing “good spirits” to our very own neighborhood, legally, of course!
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