Special Events and Group Bookings 

Our distillery is open every day and we are happy to accommodate your special event at a time when we are not operating our regular Lounge hours.  This may be a unique tasting event, a cocktail making class, or other ideas that we can work together to help create for you and your group.  Of course, your special event can also be arranged during our regular scheduled hours. Please email lounge@oddsocietyspirits.com or call us at 604-279-4646 and we will help create a memorable event. 

Reservations

We welcome large groups; our reservation system will only accept up to 8 people.  Should you be a larger group, please email lounge@oddsocietyspirits.com or call us at 604-279-4646 for availability.

Lounge and Retail Bottle Shop – Regular Hours:

Thursday 4-10
Friday 3-11
Saturday 3-11
Sunday 3-8

Visit our ‘Shop‘ page to order online for delivery and pickup.

Stop by the Lounge for a curated cocktail or have a flight of Odd Society’s family of spirits. Bottles are also available for purchase to enjoy at your leisure. Our lounge was designed to represent the soul of Odd Society—warm and welcoming, but out of sorts and charmingly unusual. The centrepiece is a massive painting by local East Van artist, Shwa Keirstead that imagines the stills as a phantasmagorical mashing of beasts and spirits to define the unworldly character of the Odd Society.

The tasting lounge is separated from the distillery by floor-to-ceiling glass walls so you can consider the art and science that went into the creation of the fine spirits you are imbibing. The friendly staff behind the bar are happy to elucidate the finer points of the process for you, or just pour you another sample if you’d prefer. 

Housed in a converted motorcycle garage on Powell Street in East Vancouver, Odd Society is well situated in a happening craft liquor community, with neighbours including Andina Brewing, Parallel 49 Brewing Company, Powell Street Brewery, Slow Hand Beer Company and Storm Brewing. We serve signature cocktails that explore and celebrate the unique qualities of our family of spirits as well as beer from our neighbouring breweries often featuring unique collaborations between distiller and brewer, plus some of our favourite BC wines.  

 

Distillery

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What it means to be Craft

Odd Society is proud to be a true craft distillery. Being craft-certified means that Odd Society Spirits are: ∗ Fermented and distilled on site ∗ Made from 100% BC-grown grains ∗ Produced using traditional methods ∗ Distilled in small batches It also means we can sell our spirits directly to you from our on-site tasting lounge. While the tradeoff may be that you won’t see Odd Society spirits in the BC Liquor stores anytime soon, we think the commitment to quality and locality is worth it. 

The Stills

At the heart of Odd Society are our beautiful copper pot stills made by Arnold Holstein in Germany, as well as a 15-foot vodka column. We recently upgraded our equipment and now we have two spirits stills, one 350 liters and one 1000 liters. The first distillation happens in our 3000 liter wash/stripping still that also doubles as our mash tun. European Heritage, Modified for Experimentation The original 30-year old pot stills were previously used by a Swiss distillery to make fruit schnapps and liquers that are used in many famous Swiss chocolates, but have since been extensively modified so they can make Odd Society’s unique gin, vodka and whiskey. By removing the old column from one of the stills and replacing it with a domed, bell top allows us to pursue single, traditional-type distillation techniques. A Unique Combination of Gin-Making Traditions We have also added a gin basket between the still and the condenser that will ensure that the delicate botanicals we use won’t get boiled in the distillation process. Instead, they will be placed in a stainless basket between the still and the condenser so the botanicals are bathed in vapours to gently extract the oils without destroying them. Our gin distillation method will macerate some botanicals and use vapour extraction for others. This unique combination of methods will produce a one-of-a-kind spirit. 

The Vodka Column

The addition of the 15-foot vodka column will remove the majority of impurities from the distilled wash to create a pure, crisp alcohol, while still maintaining the characteristics of the underlying raw grains—in East Van Vodka’s case, the malted barley. Together, these modifications result in a system that is incredibly flexible and capable of producing a wide range of high-quality spirits.

Water recycling system

Meanwhile, all the water we use is cooled and recycled via a large cooling tower located on the roof. It takes the hot water from the condensers and runs them through a set of air-cooled coils before piping it back into the building where it’s stored in a tank, ready to go through the condenser again. Normally distilleries waste thousands of litres of water in each distillation, but our recycling method vastly reduces the waste, energy usage and costs.