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The Insider: A walking tour with a Victoria gin maker

11/12/2013

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PictureSmell the heritage grains baking at Fol Epi. Photo by Peter Bagi.
With a wood fire, a handful of botanicals and a German copper pot, Peter Hunt transforms plain grain spirit into the award-winning Victoria Gin. And he isn’t the only Victoria resident in the business of consumable alchemy.

From butchers to bakers, there are a lot of people “trying to really do something unique and creative,” says Hunt, a molecular biologist turned master distiller behind Victoria Spirits. 

So where to tap into this current of creativity? Here, in my Globe and Mail Insider, Hunt shares five downtown stops in the B.C. capital that will keep you fuelled all day long.  


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