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.

Visit

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

1 bottle