Island Organics
The island-city of Bainbridge is eight miles due west of Seattle, in the Puget Sound. It takes about 35 minutes to get there by ferry – there’s a morning run and an evening run. The island, which is 28 square miles in size, has 53 miles of coastline and a population of just over 25,000 people.
Bainbridge has six public schools, a Christmas-tree farm, an art museum, seven wineries and an organic distillery. The latter was founded in 2009 and is run by Keith Barnes, who’s lived on the island for 22 years.
Located on Bainbridge's eastern side, the distillery’s metal-clad building is in one of the island's only industrially zoned areas, so it has access to high-voltage power and city water, necessities for a distillery. It’s home to Barnes’s still, four fermenters and some of his 1,200 barrels. More are ageing
