News

The Hollywood Private Barrel Club
The Hollywood Private Barrel Club is a members-only program at Hollywood Distillery: reserved production capacity, private barrel selections, invite-only tastings, and a small-quantity annual allocation of whiskeys that don't hit the retail shelf. Here's how it works. Read more...
Whiskey Wisdom: Busting Common Myths
Whiskey is surrounded by folklore. Some of it is true. Most of it isn't. Here are the eight most-repeated whiskey myths, corrected — from the guys who actually make it. Read more...
The Benefits of Buying a Barrel of Whiskey
Buying a full barrel of whiskey — a single-barrel private release with a custom label — has become one of the most-requested experiences in craft distilling. Here's what you actually get, what it costs, and why groups and small businesses keep doing it. Read more...
Decoding Flavors: A Guide to Tasting Notes
"Notes of caramel, leather, and dark cherry." What tasting notes actually mean, how to develop a working vocabulary, and how to taste a spirit properly — without pretending you can taste things you can't. Read more...
Crafting Artistry: A Look Into Our Production Process
From raw ingredient to finished bottle, our four spirits pass through a five-step process on a 1,000-gallon copper pot still in a 1920s Hollywood warehouse. A behind-the-scenes look at what the tour doesn't have time to cover in an hour. Read more...
Crafting History: A Journey Through the Craft Spirits Renaissance
American craft distilling went from twelve licensed distilleries in 1980 to more than two thousand today. Here's what caused the renaissance, why California and New York became new whiskey states, and where the movement is heading next. Read more...
Oasis Vodka in Cinema: A Tasting Guide for Movie Nights
The movies made vodka famous — James Bond ordered it shaken; the Coen brothers put it in a White Russian. Here's a movie-night pairing guide with Oasis Vodka at the center: five films, five cocktails, one warehouse in Hollywood where the vodka is actually made. Read more...
The Fascinating History of Whiskey
Whiskey started in Irish monasteries, colonized Scotland, funded the American Revolution, survived Prohibition in medicinal disguise, and now sits behind every serious bar in the world. The seven-minute version of a 900-year story. Read more...
The Coachella Valley: A Perfect Spot for Date Growing
The Coachella Valley produces almost all of the United States' Medjool dates — the fruit we distill into Oasis Vodka. Here's why California dates are the world's best, and how the valley became an unlikely piece of Middle Eastern desert transplanted to Riverside County. Read more...
Crafting the Perfect NYE Cocktails
Champagne is fine, but the best New Year's Eve drinks are the ones you can actually taste. Six cocktails built for the midnight moment — elegant, batch-friendly, and much more interesting than the seventh flute of Prosecco. Read more...
Cocktail Recipes Using Oasis Vodka
Oasis is a date-based vodka — softer, slightly floral, and closer to a light aged spirit than a neutral wheat vodka. That changes what it does in a cocktail. Six drinks that show off what it's actually for. Read more...
Exploring the World of Bitters
Bitters are the salt of the cocktail world — a few dashes shift a drink from good to memorable. Here's what they are, how they're made, and the six bottles that belong on any serious home bar. Read more...
Craft Spirits: Why Quality Matters
"Craft" gets used to sell everything from beer to breakfast cereal. Here's what the word actually means when it's applied to spirits — and what you're actually paying for when you buy a bottle from a small distillery. Read more...
The Saga of Gin: From Medicine to Mixology
Gin started as a Dutch pharmacy tonic, became the sedative of London's slums, was rehabilitated by cocktail culture, and now lives in the tasting flight at a Hollywood distillery. Here's the full arc, in about six minutes. Read more...
Pairing Bourbon with LA Tacos
Bourbon and tacos sound wrong. They're not. A guide to pairing the high-rye spice of Zanja-Madre Bourbon with seven categories of LA taco — from the lengua truck on Sunset to the white-tablecloth omakase versions in Highland Park. Read more...
What We're Drinking at the Bar This Spring
Six cocktails our bar team is making right now — a Negroni variation built on prickly pear, a date-vodka spritz, and a few experiments worth poaching for your home bar. Read more...
How to Spot a Bad Distillery Tour
An honest, slightly grumpy guide to the warning signs of a tourist-trap distillery tour. The bigger the gift shop, the smaller the still. Five things to look for, four things to avoid. Read more...
Cinespia at Hollywood Forever: A Summer Pairing Guide
Every Saturday night in summer, classic films get projected onto a mausoleum wall in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Across the street, we make cocktails. A short guide to pairing a Cinespia screening with what you should be drinking from a flask on the lawn. Read more...
The First Distillation Run
The day we ran our copper Vendome still for the first time. A short account of what running a distillery actually feels like — the temperatures, the cuts, the moment you decide what's heart and what's tail. Read more...
The Cocktail History of Hollywood, From Speakeasy to Now
Hollywood's cocktail bars are older than its movie studios. A short history of how the neighborhood drank through Prohibition, the studio years, and the long century when no working distillery operated within its borders. Read more...
How a 1920s Mortuary Became a Distillery
The building at 5975 Santa Monica Boulevard has been a mortuary, a film prop warehouse, an empty hull, and now a working distillery. A short history of one Hollywood block, the people it served, and what we changed when we moved in. Read more...
Why We Distill from Dates
The first time we tasted vodka distilled from California dates, the silence was the answer. A note on why we built a distillery around an unusual base ingredient — and what changes when vodka stops trying to be neutral. Read more...