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November 27, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 11A Astoria distillery opens new tasting room in Seaside Proprietors debut after earlier denial much earlier, “as a thought after tasting some moon- shine” in Tennessee. Cary crafts a variety of spirits, including vodka, By Katherine Lacaze whiskey, rum, gin, aquavit, Seaside Signal liqueur and plans to release North Coast Distilling is an agave. The second tast- now selling its spirits at a ing room in Seaside “gives new tasting room and retail a broader blanket or netting establishment in Seaside. to sell our products,” he On Sept. 14, proprietor said. Not quite in the heart of Larry Cary successfully appealed an earlier City downtown, he determined Council denial of the busi- the North Holladay Drive ness license, giving Cary location is “more sophisti- the go-ahead to open the FDWHG´ DQG WKH EHVW ¿W IRU the tasting room. Under tasting room Oct. 1. Located at 10 N. Holla- the company’s current li- day Dr., the bottled spirits cense with the Oregon Li- sold are created by Cary at quor Control Commission, his craft distillery in Asto- North Coast Distilling is ria. He runs the business DOORWWHG¿YHWDVWLQJURRPV Cary originally planned with his wife, Christina. North Coast Distilling, for an Aug. 1 opening for adjacent to the Liberty The- the Seaside business. The ater in Astoria, opened its delay was a result of an ¿UVWWDVWLQJURRPRQ'XDQH earlier business license de- Street in February 2014. nial. In an August letter to The Carys describe the be- Cary, City Manager Mark ginning of the company as Winstanley wrote, “unfor- W E ARE YOUR ON E- S T OP BIK E AN D AT V HORS EPOW ER S HOP ‘I assumed I would be granted a business license, because the state has approved my application.’ Larry Cary, co-owner of North Coast Distilling tunately Distilling Liquor Licenses are approved by the OLCC and are not ap- proved by the City Coun- cil, and for that reason the business license cannot be approved.” “I assumed I would be granted a business license, because the state has ap- proved my application,” Cary said. Cary said there was a misunderstanding with the Seaside Police Department — which denied the appli- cation — and the city over the type of business North Coast Distilling planned to establish in Seaside. The second site is solely a tast- ing room with retail sales, not a shot bar or second distillery. “We offer more of a his- tory lesson on spirits and the sampling of craft spir- its,” Cary added. Under Oregon law, the company is permitted to sell 2.5 ounces per day to patrons 21 years or older. Each sample is about half an ounce. At present, they RIIHU ÀLJKWV RI WKUHH VDP- ples for $5 and sell bottles ranging from $28 to $50. “We can only sell facto- ry sealed containers of the product we created, which has been federally licensed and approved,” he wrote to Winstanley in response to the denial. The business hours are Thursday and Friday, 3-6 p.m.; Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. KATHERINE LACAZE/SEASIDE SIGNAL Larry and Christina Cary, owners of North Coast Distilling, opened a tasting room on North Holladay Drive in Seaside last month. 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