Monashee Spirits Craft Distillery

Monashee Spirits is a small, family-run craft distillery on Mackenzie Avenue, Revelstoke's main street, with a cocktail room that See Revelstoke describes as a distillery doubling as an award-winning bar. Everything is distilled by hand in small batches using local ingredients and mountain spring water, and the line runs from single malt and triticale whiskies to Monashee vodka, Ethos gin, an aperitif, Big Mountain Creamer and house cocktail bitters. The bar pours no wine or beer and serves no food, so the spirits carry the whole menu.

The Growler profiled owner and distiller Josh McLafferty's organic triticale spirits, a wheat and rye hybrid with a bready spice, and noted that almost everything is sourced within 100 miles, from rooftop honey to the huckleberries, spruce tips and juniper foraged for the gin. Its writer singled out a barrel-aged Negroni rested nine months in a rye barrel. See Revelstoke recommends The Curator, the Ocha Sour and the Monashee Mule. The room placed #42 on Canada's 50 Best Bars in 2022.