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From a community-funded microdistillery to multi-million-dollar production sites, we look back at 10 of the best distillery openings of 2022.

“If a grown-up theme park and a bartender fell in love and produced offspring, it would be this gin factory,” said Ryan Reynolds about Aviation American Gin’s new distillery when he opened it last year.

OB spoke to Hollie Stephenson about her vision for the distillery and visitors center, and how she’s settling into Portland.

Earlier this month, Aviation Gin announced it had appointed Hollie Stephenson as director of the new Aviation Gin Distillery and visitor center, which the company expects will open to the public later in 2022. The new Northwest Portland distillery is slated to offer tours, cocktail flights and tastings.

A rise in craft breweries and distilleries prompted South Puget Sound Community College to offer a unique degree.

While some schools offer degrees in brewing or distilling, a school spokesperson said the Tumwater-based college is the only college offering two-year associate degrees in craft brewing, distilling, and cider-making.

fi architecture's project, Harbor Health and Apothecary and Hop Pharm Taproom earned an honorable mention award at the 2021 American Institute of Architects Southwest Washington (AIA SWW) Honor Awards.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the vision for this unique project! Watch the video below.

In recent years, a growing movement of people have started turning from large commercial pharmacies to apothecaries or compounding pharmacies. These smaller, often independently operated pharmacies offer a greater degree of personalization than retail pharmacies, including customized dosages based on age, height, weight, as well as choice of medication form — pill, liquid or powder.

With the opening of Heritage Distilling Company’s tasting room and bar, the South Sound has a stunning new craft beverage destination that, by next year, will add an eater’s paradise and an amphitheater.

The Gig Harbor-based spirits producer officially opens Friday, June 4 at the Tumwater Craft District, a multi-faceted project — five years in the making — on Capitol Boulevard, with a tree-lined view of the old Olympia Brewing facility.

Distillery and tasting room partnering with South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) as anchor tenants in Tumwater’s new Craft District

Heritage Distilling Company, Inc. (HDC), Washington state’s largest independently owned craft distillery, will open its newest location in Tumwater, Washington on June 4, 2021. The building is shared with South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) as part of the school’s Craft Brewing & Distilling program.

The long vacant Key Bank building at 3216 Judson St. in Gig Harbor has new tenants who are hoping to breathe life back into their corner of downtown.

Conrad Esser is the owner of the recently opened Harbor Health Apothecary and Hop Pharm Taproom. In a release, Esser said he was hoping to bring “much-needed revitalization to a downtown Gig Harbor high traffic corner.”