Take it slow and easy at Spirit Works, where dangerously smooth-drinking small-batch spirits like sloe gin, rye whiskey, barrel gin, and vodka come from organic California red-winter wheat. Taste current releases straight (1.5 ounces total) to savor the "grain-to-glass" process – all milling, mashing, fermenting and distilling happens on-site. Sample inspired mini-cocktails, from refreshing Bees Knees (barrel gin, lemon, Sonoma honey) to the Bessie Williamson (sloe gin, basil, apricot shrub, bitters, lime), named for the first woman to run a Scottish whiskey distillery.
Tours happen 2pm and 4pm Friday to Sunday and finish with a tasting ($25 by reservation; bottles $27 to $68).
