Founded by an icebreaker captain and a professor of organic chemistry, this Gulf Island company takes distilling seriously—so much so that their website backstory reads like a research paper. Bottom line, they’re focused on purity, and on creating gin and vodka free of hangover-causing propanol, isopentanol, methyl butanol and iso butanol. Who are we to argue with science? 4605 Roburn Road, Hornby Island, BC, 250-335-0630, islandspirits.ca