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Probably Shouldn't Distillery
Visit our tasting room!
New Summer Hours: Every Saturday from July 1 to August 19, Noon to 5pm
Other days and times by appointment.
Favorite Holiday Cocktail Recipes
Serves 4
3 (12-ounce) bottles hard apple cider
1 ½ cups fresh apple cider
1 cup ginger beer
½ cup Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy
1 apple, 1 pear and 1 orange sliced
handful of cinnamon sticks
Combine all ingredients in a large pitcher. Stir gently.
Serve immediately.
Stir together:
4-6 ounces hot, spiced apple cider
1 Tbsp Hot Buttered Rum batter
1 ½ ounce Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy
Stir together:
4-6 ounces hot, spiced apple cider
½ ounce Blueberry Pie Liqueur
1 ½ ounces Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy
Serve over ice:
2 ounces Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry or Raspberry Brandy
squeeze of lime
4 ounces ginger beer
splash of pineapple juice
Top your favorite Champagne or sparkling wine with ½-1 ounce Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry Pie Liqueur. Garnish with whole blueberries or cranberries.
Pour 1 ounce of Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry Pie Liqueur in 12 ounces of Irish Death Strong Ale. It tastes like a gingersnap cookie. Not kidding.
3 ounces Probably Shouldn’t Old Tom Gin
3 dashes Angostura or orange bitters
2 tsp. simple syrup
Generous Orange Twist
Pour the gin, bitters and simple syrup into a large glass filled with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into rocks glass and add orange twist.
1 ½ oz Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy or Single Malt Whisky
3 oz small batch eggnog
Pour the brandy and eggnog into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with grated nutmeg, and serve.
EVERSON — Despite the name, the folks at Probably Shouldn’t Distillery decided recently that they probably should use their distilling powers for something quite unique.
The distillery got the go-ahead from the federal government March 17 to begin producing hand sanitizer from the alcohol already on hand in the distillery. But the idea was born before the severity of the COVID-19 crisis was known.
Mariah Butenschoen co-owns Probably Shouldn’t with her husband, Shawn.
“I teach at Lynden High School,” Mariah said. “We were kind of joking about it at school, like ‘What if we cancel school?’ I said I should make hand sanitizer.”
Then, indeed, on March 13 school was canceled for six weeks, and Mariah told Shawn maybe they should produce hand sanitizer because it had become so hard to find and they have the ingredients readily available.