BLINKING OWL DISTILLERY

PRESS and ACCOLADES

FoRBES - The best Bourbon you've never heard of

"But to build this level of liquid—and attain this level of recognition—in less than 3 years? Something special is happening here. And it’s only going to get better with age." BRAD JAPHE

LONNY MAGAZINE

“Blinking Owl is one of the first distilleries in all of California with a tasting room, and boy, did it get the design on point. “—Lonny Magazine 

March 14, 2017: OC Weekly: “Blinking Owl Distillery Currently Aging First Bourbon Made in Orange County Since Prohibition” 

March 9, 2017: Lonny: “This Is The Prettiest Distillery We’ve Ever Seen”

March 1, 2017: Swaay Media: “Good Spirits: 15 Women-run Distilleries and Wineries to Make You Thirsty”

February 17, 2017: Los Angeles Magazine: “Escape L.A. with These 5 Low-Key Day Trips”

February 3, 2017: OC Weekly: “Miss Delicious at Blinking Owl Distillery, Our Drink of the Week!”

January 27,2017: OC Weekly: “Blinking Owl Gin, Our Drink of the Week!”

January 12, 2017: Orange Coast Magazine: “Gin In the Blink of an Owl”

January 2017: Modern Luxury: “The Best of OC (A Year of Cheer)”

December 29, 2016: Rue Magazine: “Blinking Owl: Orange County’s First Craft Distillery”

December 23,2016: OC Weekly: “Top 5 OC Cocktails of 2016”

December 21, 2016: Orange County Register: “Here are the Best Things we Ate in 2016”

December 21, 2016: Saute Magazine: “Orange County’s First Distillery is a Grain Changer”

November 14, 2016: JETSETTER Magazine: “America’s Best New Distilleries”

November 14, 2016: Bit By a Fox

C Magazine for Men: “Head Turner”

October 20, 2016: Orange County Register

Oct 17-23: Print: Orange County Business Journal: “Hard (Liquor Times in Santa Ana”

October 17, 2016: Inside the Barrels Podcast

October 14, 2016: Much About Fooding

October 12, 2016: KTLA 5 NEWS:

September 28, 2016: ABC 7 NEWS:

September 23,2016: OC Weekly "Drink of the Week"

September 23, 2016: LA Times "Drop in at Blinking Owl Distillery"

September 22,2016: Orange Coast Magazine "Blinking Owl Distillery Opens"

September 21, 2016: Timeout (Los Angeles)"OC's first craft distillery opens"

September 21, 2016: Eater (Los Angeles)

September 20,2016: LA Times

September 16, 2016: OC Weekly

April 25,2016: OC Weekly "On the Line"

April 18, 2016: Buzzfeed

Feb 10, 2016: Orange Coast Magazine "Liquor Goes Local"

Oct 22,2015: Huffington Post

Oct 16, 2015: LA Times

Oct 8, 2015: Orange Coast Magazine "Farm to Table meets Grain to Glass"

Oct 7, 2015: OC Weekly "Blinking Owl Distillery Ground Breaking"

Oct 7, 2015: Orange County Register "Santa Ana Art Space Getting Distillery"

Feb 2014 (in March Issue of Orange Coast Magazine:

LA Times "Daily Dish"