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Co-founders Erika and Sebastian Degens source local ingredients for their extensive line of handcrafted brandies, liqueurs, and whiskeys. Visit the tasting room, which is usually open Friday through Sunday, to sample everything from a Straight Rye Whiskey, to a Haskap Berry Liqueur, a Quince Pear Brandy.

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Make it simple, make it right. A philosophy that has served the New Deal Distillery very well. From humble beginnings as the smallest licensed distillery in America, it became the cornerstone of what is today Distillery Row and is now open Wednesday through Sunday, from noon to 6 p.m. The purveyor of hand-crafted gins, whiskeys, vodkas, and liqueurs also offers hands-on whiskey making classes.

Do one thing and do it well. In the case of Wild Roots Spirits, that’s vodka. Naturally infused vodka, to be specific. Each offering from Wild Roots is distilled and filtered five times over, then infused with more than a pound of locally grown fruit. The collection includes Washington Apple and Cinnamon-, Oregon Marionberry-, and Dark Sweet Cherry-infused vodkas, and tasting are available Thursday through Sunday.

Nelson D’Amour went and got himself a PhD in chemical engineering from Stanford, and Portland benefits from the end result. Industrial Row Distillery loves flavor and abhors shortcuts. For example, it opts to take an extra step and utilize raw local ingredients, like grain from Bob’s Red Mill, as opposed to ready-to-go neutral grain spirits. It also likes for that grain to speak up with regards to flavor, so the distillery goes the unfiltered route on its one and only product, Dystopia Vodka. The tasting room is open Saturdays, from 1 to 5 p.m.

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Aria Portland Dry Gin is an award-winning English-style gin, and by award-winning, we mean Aria has won gold in every judged competition it’s ever entered. And by English, we specifically mean it is a true London dry-style gin utilizing traditional British ingredients and distillation techniques. The ten botanicals found in Aria produce a gin that is intended to help craft cocktails soar but serves up neat or straight over ice just as well. Open Wednesday through Sunday.

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