Oakland Spirits Company

Much love, appreciation, and respect Cask! Thanks as well to @hogislandoysterco @briefcase_full_of_booze and @saulranella for helping turn a dream into a delicious and highly cocktailable gin. #Repost @caskstore O is for Oysters... ------ Oakland Spirit Co. Half Shell Gin ($34) Made in collaboration with Hog Island Oyster Co., Oakland Sprirt Co. has created the first ever (legal) spirit distilled thru whole oysters, using their signature Sweetwater Oysters from Tomales Bay. Oysters and gin/juniper were made to go together. That said, it took a considerable amount of bridge-botanicals to make the marriage stick. Smashed celery root bulbs, dried French tarragon, fresh parsley and lemons, to name a few. The oyster quality inhabits the texture, minerally mid-palate, and the mid-nose but is not super prevalent until you enhance it with classic gin cocktail additives (that have a bit of sugar). Tonic, Dry Vermouth, Green Chartreuse, Luxardo, and Carpano Bianco all bring the ‘Tomales Bay’ note right up to the top. Don’t fear, it’s super versatile and delicious on its own Like all of OsCo spirits, it’s distilled using neutral grape spirit and is gluten free. ------ #oaklandspiritscomany #OsCo #gin #ginstagram #instagin #oysters #halfshell #craftgin #craftspirits #californiagin #caskstore #alcoholalphabet #sanfrancisco #berkeley #hogislandoysterco #craftcocktails @oaklandspirits @hogislandoysterco

Iso Rabins and Matt Johansen of Forage Kitchen are more than just friends, neighbors, and customers. They’re collaborators, muses, and vital community members of our special maker block25th Street Oakland. We are so happy they were able to get this little project off the ground. Come support them as they try and bring some much needed normalcy back into all of our lives. What better way to do that than good beer, homemade sausage, and hot fries. https://www.sfgate.com//Hofkuche-debuts-at-Forage-Kitchen-

Ahhhhh...the fucking Negroni. Bracingly bitter, fastidiously formulaic, wonderfully simple, surprisingly complex, conspicuously open for adaptation, and assuredly . We like using #automatic Gin No.5 ... 1.25oz Gin No.5, 1oz Punt e Mes or Byrrh Quinquina, .75oz Bruto Americano. Stir in a cocktail shaker with ice to chill and strain into a rocks glass over ice. Rock. Garnish with expressed orange peel. Photo @kminkophoto Recipe @briefcase_full_of_booze

Thanks for the great photos @clara.rice.photo, diligently researched and written story @kcampobowen, and including us in the new summer issue @edibleeastbay Nice pics of our own @briefcase_full_of_booze ... #Repost @clara.rice.photo ... Shooting @oaklandspirits for @edibleeastbay last month. Surprisingly not my first time photographing booze atop a longboard this year! Also featuring @oaktownspice goodies @ Oakland Spirits Company See more

Vermouth is so often the missing component that takes cocktails from fine to sublime. https://www.epicurious.com//vermouth-is-the-drink-of-summe

This is one of our favorite OsCo cocktails from a naming story and conceptual standpoint. Oh yeah, it’s also delicious and refreshing. This is basically a spiked take on the classic Arnold Palmer (50/50 lemonade and iced tea). If you don’t know who John Daly is, think of him as the former Motley Crüe of the PGA tour. (Before he got sober.) ‘John Daly Killed Arnold Palmer’... 2 oz Uptown Dry Gin, .25 oz lemon flavored vodka, 2.5 oz chilled Earl Grey Tea, .5 oz lemon juice, .5 oz simple syrup, 2 oz club soda (Le Croix). Throw it all in a highball with ice, Garnish with a lemon and a quick 9 holes. Cheers,

Another preview of some of @kminkophoto amazing work on shots for our website reboot. She took 1000 photos in 3 days and we got, on average, 12 winning shots a day. With only 1.5 people assisting her. This is the Halfshell Oyster Gin G&T with @chareauspirit and @anchoreyes (recipe 5 posts back). REMEMBER We are still offering free delivery of @twomilewines and OsCo spirits all over the Bay Area. Catalog and ordering info click link in bio. ...

Another hot off the presses/hard drive cocktail shot for our new OsCo website reboot. From the artistic soul @kminkophoto with creative nudging by @briefcase_full_of_booze and @schaafdesign The Shiso Julep: 2 oz glasshouse Shiso Brandy ... 1.5 oz watermelon juice .5 oz @egansirishwhiskey 3 large torn mint leaves -------- Shake with ice to chill, strain over crushed ice into a highball glass. Add 2 dashes of @angosturahouse orange bitters and a couple mint sprigs to the top, a straw, and a fancy derby-hat to your melon. See more

Thank you @Vivian Cromwell Photography for this great article in American Distilling Institute . Really captures the spirit of the thing. https://distilling.com//oakland-spirits-company-bottles-t/

Happy Gin Day! We honor our inventive and savory Sea Gin. While it could be considered gin adjacent from a juniper load standpoint, it celebrates the flavor diversity and broad platform that ginas a categoryprovides. We love gin and got into the game to dig deep into all the possibility’s it provides as a category. Pushing boundaries with botanicals and flavors is why we wake up everyday. ... This is a brand new photo is the work of @kminkophoto . We had an amazing photo shoot last week and got 31 OsCo cocktails captured. All for our upcoming redesign of our website. Should drop mid-July. This drink is called ‘Mango Hands’ and is made with mango sorbet, smoked salt, lime, and Sea Gin. Finally, check out the new profile on @americandistilling written by the magically talented @thetipsymuse . Stay healthy, creative, sane, and connected.

Truth... https://www.forbes.com//quarantine-cocktails-why-now-is-/

It’s about time. We can’t help but wonder if part of gin’s rise in popularity post-COVID has to do with its historical use as a medicine. Going WAYYYY back. It’s obviously the most cocktailable spirit, which helps lubricate house-drinking creativity. ... https://www.maxim.com//this-spirits-sales-have-spiked-duri

Friends; @barshiruoakland was by far the dopest addition to DT Oakland’s bar scene in 2019. An amazingly conceptualized Japanese Listening/Vinyl Bar with Uptown sensibilities and less-is-more meticulous cocktails. Until we can all return to grace their sanctuary of sound and elixirs with our physical presence, please consider supporting them by picking up a cocktail kit. (Click on their bio.) Amongst the hundreds of Sea Gin cocktails created by CA bar-artist and the hundreds ...we’ve created over the years, this one is top 5 of all time. & Empyrean Isles Cocktail Kits now available for local delivery. Using @oaklandspirits delicious and brine-y Automatic Sea Gin as the base, we balance it out with a blend of Carpano Bianco and Luxardo Bitter Bianco and finish it off with a couple dashes of Scotch and a lemon twist. It’s a unique and tasty sea-and-smoke-tinged cocktail that sits somewhere between a dirty martini and a white Negroni. Order now and we’ll deliver everything you need to make one of our most popular drinks at home! Tap the link in our bio for all the details and to place your order for Saturday local delivery. Cheers.

This nasty-ass has wiped most calendars cleaner than every overly sanitized door-handle at the grocery store. However, we found one it couldn’t expunge. National Gin & Tonic day! What would our fair spirit be without its always curative and complementary muse. We celebrate with our current obsession. Add 3-4 oz of your favorite tonic, squeezed lemon, and ice to the measurements on the board. The @anchoreyes green and @chareauspirit lift the oyster in the Halfshell gin up ...like a Russian ballerina. You celebrate with whatever you got. As long as you smile. Stay healthy, vigilant, creative, and calm.