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
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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
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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-
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‘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
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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. Patrons also can purchase factory sealed bottle
of spirits crafted by Larry Cary at his distillery in Astoria.
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