San Clemente, CA · Est. 2017
Drift Distillery
San Clemente grain-to-bottle craft — Kansas family-farm wheat, SoCal stillhouse + BBQ tasting room
- Owned
- Independent
- Scale
- Small
- Still
- Pot
- Founded
- 2017
Owners Ryan and Lesli Winter opened Drift Distillery in San Clemente, California (2017), bringing Hard Red Winter wheat from their parents' farm near Bison, Kansas into a true grain-to-bottle SoCal operation. The tasting room is lined with tin and wood from a century-old barn on that Kansas farm; the campus now pairs small-batch whiskey, vodka, gin, and rum with a KC-style BBQ smokehouse. Folds of Honor Straight Bourbon is a special-edition pour that donates per bottle to scholarships for spouses and children of fallen or disabled military and first responders — same four-grain mash as the house El Camino Real bourbon, packaged for the charity partnership.
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Restaurant/tasting: Mon–Thu & Sun 11am–10pm; Fri–Sat 11am–11pm
Distillery + BBQ smokehouse; 21+ for spirits. Not Driftless Glen (WI).
115 S El Camino Real, San Clemente, CA 92672
