This overproof gin packs a wallop. Bold, delicious orange peel and juicier citrus strike first and are later joined by mint and ginger, complementing a lip-smacking oily body. Everything is well-integrated and delicious. The gin’s pronounced flavors allow it to shine in cocktails, but it does perfectly well when sipped neat out of the glass… if you can take the heat.

When our Founder and Owner, Karen Hoskin, started Montanya Distillers, she was often one of the only women in the room. It came with a lot of misguided assumptions—most people assumed she was anyone but the owner and founder—and required that she spend a lot of time proving her expertise before she could get down to business.

Do you love gin and are thirsty for more? Are you a die-hard brown spirits fan that needs a push to the botanically influenced side of the spirits world? Barreled gins are the answer to the question you never knew needed asking, and these five are some of our favorites!

What’s it like for women who distill for a living? Chemist owner Debbie Word is interviewed about her experience as one of the only female distillery owners in the United States.

This unique spirit was crafted to capture the timeless elegance of the Biltmore Estate in bloom.

Chemist Spirits has just won the most important wine and spirits competition in the world judged by women buyers – the Women’s Wine and Spirits Awards.

Here’s the way those good times roll. As we have done in the previous two years, we are publishing a map of the 18 counties of Western North Carolina, with Jennifer’s listing of all breweries, wineries, distilleries, and cideries dotting this corner of the state.

Antidote Cocktail Lounge looks as though it's stood on the South Slope for 100 years. That is, if it wasn't for the fading smell of wood stain, the too smooth walls, the USB port and outlets embedded in each table top

The Chemist, other new distilleries, part of Asheville craft spirit boom by Asheville Citizen Times

What is a Negroni and why is it so special? Back in Florence, Italy in 1919, Count Camilo Negroni took his love for an Americano cocktail and had his bartender replace the soda water for gin. And, the rest is history.

In 2019 there are plenty of new options, new alternatives, and new destinations for the dedicated and adventurous drinker.

The folks at Apothecary Beverage Company, producers of Chemist Gin, have studied this art form through years of research at wineries and distilleries in California, France and Scotland.

“Another distillery has popped up in Asheville as part of the craft spirit boom. The Chemist is a newly formed apothecary beverage company that opened last month in the South Slope.” - WLOS

If there’s one drink more synonymous with Appalachia than beer, it’s moonshine. A new wave of distillers in Asheville is incorporating local ingredients to create spirits that are as pure as they are delicious.

Explore one of the distilleries fueling Asheville’s recent craft-spirit boom. The Chemist is a South Slope gin distillery with a tasting room outfitted as a Prohibition-era apothecary.

Every season is a good season for cocktails. But while winter begs for slow-sipping, stirred drinks with warm spices like clove and allspice or shrubs from vinegared preserves, summer calls for brighter flavors — the sharp acidity of citrus, melons and berries fresh from the harvest, shaken until ice cold.