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Sons Of Vancouver And Earnest Ice Cream Collaborate, Results = Deliciousness

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North Vancouver, BC | Cherry Amaretto Sundaes launch at Earnest Ice Cream this week. That’s Amaretto Ice Cream, sour cherry compote made with Oyama cherries, and housemade almond biscotti topped with whipped cream and a house-preserved cherry. The Amaretto Ice Cream was a collaboration with the guys at Sons of Vancouver Distillery.

“A couple weeks ago we put out a Tweet asking who wanted our Amaretto saturated Apricots,” says James Lester, co-founder of SOV. “They are a by product left over from making amaretto and we normally give them to a brewery, bakery, or pastry shop. Someone was at the door minutes later from Earnest. Although the apricots didn’t make it into the final recipe, a few bottles of amaretto did!”

“This particular sundae was a bit of a serendipitous happening,” explains Amber Westgate, Production Manager at Earnest Ice Cream. “After playing around with blueberries and not being happy with the results, I knew that I wanted to use a sour cherry compote for our next sundae special. Around the same time that I was trying to come up with a recipe, Greg, one of our production assistants, came in with a bottle of amaretto and some apricots from SOV distillery. Another one of our assistants, Brian, had made some amazing almond biscotti for a different tester, and it was a bit of a no-brainer from there. Amaretto Ice Cream. Almond Biscotti. Cherries. Done.

Starting this week and for the next month, both Earnest Ice Cream locations will be dishing out their Cherry Amaretto Sundae to the good people of Vancouver. Enjoy.

DETAILS

Sons of Vancouver Distillery Ltd.
1431 Crown Street, North Vancouver, V7J 1G2
Web: sonsofvancouver.ca | Facebook | Twitter: @SOVjames @RichardSOV | Instagram

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Proprietors

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James Lester | Owner, Operator, 25
Richard Klaus | Owner, Operator, 24

About Sons Of Vancouver

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Sons of Vancouver is a really, really small batch distillery set to open on Vancouver’s North Shore. James Lester and Richard Klaus are the two righteous dudes dedicated to bringing you their craft Vodka, Chili Vodka and No. 82 Amaretto. How they got here is a bit of a story.

Friends for a decade, they have been brewing beer and learning the finer points of alcohol and the community surrounding it for years. Originally meeting in Northern British Columbia, James and Richard worked together in oil and gas. Promised prosperity and a good life, they were let down and quickly grew unhappy. Tired of selling their lives for dollars in an ugly trade, they took their hands-on skills in process control and vowed: to never do anything they didn’t want to ever again. With this new motto, it felt appropriate to do what any old married couple ready to enter their golden years would do, and threw a great big retirement party and headed off to Mexico. It was during the resulting 40 day and 40 night adventure down the west coast and back that the guys began crafting the idea of a business together.

This idea went on hiatus in its infancy, with James becoming a travelling bartender and Richard journeying through Latin America. However, after a healthy break of separate growth and experience, James and Richard met back up and started working with distillers south of the border to learn the market and skills. There the two gents learned how to make Vodka, Gin, Bourbon and Lemoncello. The desire to open a distillery really came organically and was a natural progression of James and Richard’s shared backgrounds in brewing, bartending and process control. James, brewing beer since junior high and Richard, who spent more time brewing IPAs in college than he did attending school; it was always clear that alcohol and the process of making it would somehow become a part of their lives. Often asked, “why not craft beer?” James will always joke that it was because he couldn’t grow a big enough beard. In reality, with a city full of great beer these two guys drew from their personal and professional backgrounds to bring great craft spirits to Vancouver, an emerging market with a great future.

After two years of blood, sweat, and man tears, the Sons of Vancouver Distillery is nearly open, and the two guys behind the curtain are ready to welcome you in with a smile. Featuring rustic repurposed stills, a beautiful tasting room, and killer product, the guys hope to be welcoming you into their new space on the North Shore in early 2015.

They intend to serve as an inspiration to all those with almost impossible dreams, that following a path with integrity and dedication, the impossible can indeed be achieved. They are excited to be a part of the growing market of distilleries in British Columbia.

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