Traverse City, United States
215 E Front St
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+1 2319461259
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Delicious cocktails and friendly staff. My wife enjoyed the lemonade cocktail. I had the Manhattan and the gin and tonic. Both were fantastic.
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Nice ambiance and delicious drinks!
Love love love Grand Traverse Distillery! Friendly staff, excellent drinks and love that it is a family run business! Highly recommend!
We tried their cherry vodka, chocolate vodka and cherry whisky all were amazing. Tastes like real cherry and dark chocolate. None of that fake sweetener added. They also sell Bee Well cidars which are great also. Every time I've been here the bartenders were wonderful.
The Grand Traverse Distillery/ Tasting room seemed very ... bar like. Which can be fine, but i wanted a whiskey place that did whiskey and knew whiskey and talked whiskey and grrrrrrah! I'll admit, that by the time I reached Grand Traverse, I had already been drinking, but I had a hard time distinguishing the flavors supposedly therein. Overall, nice place, nice staff, cool bar and sitting areas, but it didn't quite hit me right.
**We visited during COVID so recognize operations may run differently during normal times** We had heard really great things about the Grand Traverse Distillery — it was a “must visit” from those we spoke to. However, when we arrived, there were people everywhere and no clear understanding of how to order a drink or get a tasting. We finally identified the line, and realized they only had two bartenders on staff — one making cocktails and one managing tastings. The line took longer than necessary because the only menu they had was right at the front so you couldn’t decide on your order ahead of time. Our drinks were ok. I would recommend any new visitors try their staple, the cherry vodka lemonade. This is what they are know for, I believe. Separately, it’s a very dirty, unorganized place. There were tables left unclean with empty drinks mounting on top. There was an unused bar at the back that had stuff everywhere, and they left unused chairs piled up. It reminded me of a place Bar Rescue would target — it has real potential, but likely mismanaged.
The establishment itself is great but the bottle I bought was horrible. Tastes like corn moonshine with no alcohol content. The bourbon while I was there was great but when I bought the bottle it was like a completely different beverage. One star for the trickery. But overall, great and friendly staff! Ginger beer is amazing!
The distillery’s website said it’s open Sundays at 11 a.m. You can see the closed sign at 11:40 on Sunday, June 21. The actual still is closed on Sundays, which I understand. That’s why I went to the tasting room.
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