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Rainy Day
Tasting Flight at Odd Society Spirits
Watch your gin being made through a glass wall, then drink it in a guided flight while rain hammers the warehouse roof.
Rainy Day
Watch your gin being made through a glass wall, then drink it in a guided flight while rain hammers the warehouse roof.
Odd Society Spirits in East Van has a glass wall separating the gleaming copper still from the tasting lounge, which is less a design choice and more a way of making every date feel like you're in on something. Order a guided flight and let the bartender explain the whisky, vermouth and house liqueurs with the focused enthusiasm of someone who is delighted to finally be asked. Split an appetizer. Talk. When the rain hammers the warehouse roof, the room gets quieter and better and warmer in the way you always hope a rainy night will go. Thursday through Sunday only, so you have to plan for it, which is itself a kind of romance. Come for one flight and stay for the reasonable conclusion that this should be two.
