SW Spirit Works Distillery Visit the Tasting Room

The Barlow · Sebastopol · Est. 2012

Whole grain in. Great spirits out.

One of the few female-led distilling teams in the country, milling, mashing, fermenting, distilling and bottling every drop by hand in Sebastopol. Vodka, gin, sloe gin and whiskey — grain to glass, all under one roof.

Visit the Tasting Room See the spirits

★ Distillery of the Year — American Distilling Institute · 2020

Grain to Glass

Every step, under one roof.

Most "craft" spirits start with alcohol made somewhere else. Ours don't. From the raw grain to the label, it all happens here — that's what grain-to-glass actually means.

  1. 01

    Mill

    Whole grain arrives at the distillery and is milled on site — nothing pre-processed, no neutral spirit bought in.

  2. 02

    Mash & Ferment

    The milled grain is mashed and fermented in-house, where the character of every spirit really begins.

  3. 03

    Distill

    Distilled by hand on our own still by a small, largely female team who know each cut by feel.

  4. 04

    Barrel & Bottle

    Aged, then bottled by hand on site — including barrels we "amplify" through sound in our music-barrel experiment.

The Spirits

Seven bottles, one philosophy.

  • 01

    Vodka

    Soft, clean, milled from whole red winter wheat

  • 02

    Gin

    Wheat base with a classic, citrus-forward botanical bill

  • 03

    Sloe Gin

    Timo's British family recipe — the spirit that started it all

  • 04

    Barrel Gin

    Rested in barrel for a rounder, spiced character

  • 05

    Straight Wheat Whiskey

    100% California whole-grain wheat

  • 06

    Straight Rye Whiskey

    Bold, spiced, made from whole grain

  • 07

    Four Grain Bourbon

    Corn, wheat, rye & malted barley — all in-house

Our Story

It started with a family sloe gin.

Timo & Ashby Marshall met doing environmental research on a ship, crossing the world in tight quarters — turns out, perfect training for building a distillery together. Timo's love of his British family's sloe gin was the spark.

They went looking for a small distillery to make it and found something missing instead: true grain-to-glass spirits. So they built it themselves. 14 years on, Spirit Works is led by one of the few female distilling teams in the U.S. and voted Sonoma County's best craft distillery and tasting room again and again.

The Tasting Room

Come taste it at the source.

Find us in The Barlow. Pull up a seat, taste the whole grain-to-glass lineup, and meet the team behind the still.

6790 McKinley Street, #100, Sebastopol, CA 95472

Call (707) 634-4793 Directions

Every step happens on site. We mill whole grain, mash and ferment it, distill it on our own still, then barrel and bottle by hand — no bought-in neutral spirit. It's the real, full-process version of craft.

Yes — the tasting room is in The Barlow in Sebastopol at 6790 McKinley Street. Hours vary by season, so please call ahead at (707) 634-4793 to confirm before you come.

The full lineup: vodka, gin, the original sloe gin, barrel gin, straight wheat and rye whiskeys, and our four-grain bourbon — all made in the building you're standing in.

We "amplify" the aging of some barrels with vibration, playing everything from Prince to symphony. Ask the team about it on your visit — it's one of the more fun things we do.