- Story by Darcy Nybo Photography by Nina Dombowsky
The distilling industry in BC has come a long way since the Dyck family opened the doors in 2004 to Okanagan Spirits in Vernon. Up until then, a license for craft distilling was not available in BC. Okanagan Spirits was the first farm-to-flask distillery to distill alcohol since the Prohibition movement in the early 1900s.
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