Thanks to /u/devoz for sharing these.

North of 7 is Ottawa’s first ever micro distillery. For some of you, you understand that starting a distillery is difficult. For others, you know starting one in Ontario is very difficult.

That said, new laws have been put in place to help new distilleries here, so here’s hoping we go down to the normal “kinda hard” level of the rest of the country.

Back to the distillery at hand: We’re very luck to have a micro distillery, even in our country’s capital. It’s not easy.

Two Ontario locals named Greg Lipin and Jody Miall loved bourbon after many trips to Kentucky for rock climbing trips. As opposed to rock walking trips, which the rest of us call bourbon trails.

After a good climb, they needed something, I assume, to steal their nerves. So they drank bourbon. And developed a love for it. So…