Seattle’s first legal distillery since the Prohibition is also one of the first in the area to bottle an Old Tom Gin. Located in the in between neighborhood of Interbay, Sound Spirits is owned and operated by craft spirits evangelist and Boeing engineer Steven Stone who helped to put small, slow-batch distillers legally on the map in Washington. His Old Tom Gin is a throwback to pre-Prohibition-era spirits and cocktails, using Palouse-grown barley and straddling the line between oak-aged brown liquor and London-dry style gin. Still proudly boasting floral notes and juniper but modestly so, the gin also shows a creamy maltiness from the barley along with vanilla and spice courtesy of aging in oak for a month.
