A local distillery is celebrating the launch of its newest whiskey, BRBN, after quickly selling out of every last bottle.
Okanagan Spirits bourbon style whiskey was more than five years in the making, but it only took five days to sell out.
“When we launched it we had to shut down online portion of our sales because it basically crashed our site,” Tyler Dyck, CEO of Okanagan Spirits said.
According to Dyck BRBN is the first locally distilled bourbon style whiskey to be produced in Western Canada.
The corn was grown in the Coldstream Valley and it was milled, fermented and distilled onsite at both Okanagan Spirits Distilleries in Vernon and Kelowna.
The company had anticipated a good response.
“Bourbon is the sexy whiskey on the market now so we knew people were going to want it,” Dyck said.
Even though the bottles are sold out people can still give BRBN a try at select restaurants in the Okanagan and the lower mainland.
If you want a bottle of your own, you’ll have to wait.
The next release of the home grown whiskey won’t come out until 2017.