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rant. Buck and Bradley are co-owners with their personal partners, Heidi Giordano and Jo Bradley.
They found the home for the operation in a legendary brick building on Ketchum's Main Street, a
building full of memories and tales. The operation
started with the brewery, with the distillery following
soon thereafter.
The distillery turns out No Return Gin, using
botanicals native to the nearby wilderness, for a true
flavor of the Northern Rockies; and Mayday Vodka,
distilled from Idaho wheat and corn. Whiskey and
apple brandy, two spirits that take time to age, are in
the works.
The Warfield restaurant serves upscale comfort
food, highlighting local and sustainable ingredients:
"Ninety percent of the proteins and produce on the
Warfield menu is now sourced from local Idaho farms,"
says the Warfield website.
The bar sources its own Warfield liquors in specialty cocktails, like the Mayday Mule, Powder Hound,
and French 75. It brings in other quality spirits to add
diversity to its cocktail list.
The area is also home to the nation's first destination ski resort, Sun Valley, and to opportunities for
mountain biking, golfing, white water rafting, and
festivals, giving Warfield a year-round audience.

Up North Distillery, post Falls
The owners of Up North Distillery, Randy and
Hilary Mann, picked up where their predecessor,
Lukas Swanson, left off-the fourth-generation
orchardist had used a still to make unaged brandy
from excess apples.
The new owners began their dream by learning the
art of distilling at a class at an existing facility. They
eventually bought Swanson's equipment and stock,
putting their own spin on the spirits.
Up North makes apple brandy (unaged, three-year
barrel aged and Big Kid Cider). They also make three
honey spirits: one unaged (like a basic mead, that
ancient honey wine), one aged one year and one for
three years in white American oak. Their creations
are "farm to flask," using locally sourced honey, grains
and fruits.
Besides making small-batch spirits, Up North operates a cocktail bar with signature cocktails, liquor
tasting flights, beer, wine and liquor from other producers. Creative signature cocktails include Sweet
Heat, with Honey Spirits, fresh jalapeño and ginger,
and pineapple juice; and Apple Pie Mimosa, with their
Big Kid Cider, caramel drizzle, cinnamon and sugar
and sparkling cider.
Up North is back from the 2017 Denver

The product line at Up North Distillery has won gold medals.

International Spirits Competition with three Gold
Medals: Honey Spirits; Barrel Finished Honey Spirits
and Apple Brandy.

BarDeNay, Boise,
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As the first post-Prohibition restaurant distillery in
the U.S., Bardenay is justifiably proud of its innovative
concept, as well as of its diverse spirits, creative handcrafted cocktails and Northwest cuisine-and of its
three Idaho locations (four if you count the Boise
Airport Bardenay). The Idaho distillery restaurants
share a common décor of exposed beams, dark woods
and black accents, for a classic look.
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