Clear Creek Distillery (Hood River Distilleries)
304 Oak Street, Suite 3 (tasting room)
Hood River, Oregon 97031
Phone: (503) 248-9470

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Handcrafted from Oregon orchard fruit, Clear Creek Distillery’s eaux de vie, fruit liqueur, and brandies have, for decades, married classic European brandy-making techniques learned in Alsace and Switzerland with the traditional European pot still.

No colors or flavors are ever added to our brandies. The distinctive “nose,” or initial smell of the brandy in a snifter, is the result of careful fermentation and distillation of perfectly ripe fruit. You will taste only the clear and fiery essence of Oregon’s finest fruits.

Owner/distiller Steve McCarthy and his brandies are respected internationally, served in the world’s best restaurants, and celebrated by connoisseurs everywhere:

“In Oregon, Steve McCarthy’s Clear Creek Distillery is producing what many experts feel to be the best fruit brandies…ever made in the U.S.” (The New York Times Magazine, Dec. 8, 1991). Steve McCarthy received Bon Appétit’s American Food & Entertaining Award “Wine and Spirit Professional of the Year” (September, 2001). His spirits have been called “the most extraordinary eaux-de-vie in America, indeed, in the world” (“The Wine Bible,” by Karen MacNeil, 2001) and “Gorgeous, impeccably pure eaux de vie” (Eric Asimov, The New York Times, August 15, 2007).

In 2014, McCarthy sold Clear Creek Distillery to Hood River Distilleries, Oregon’s largest and oldest craft distillery, which continues to make several of his original products using the same methodology and reverence to high-quality Oregon fruit and herbs.

A legendary figure in the handcrafted spirits business, McCarthy passed away in 2023.

Unlisted fruit/exotic products from Clear Creek Distillery (Hood River Distilleries): 100% apple vodka

All listed fruit/exotic products from Clear Creek Distillery (Hood River Distilleries):

Click on products below for purchasing information.

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  Clear Creek Apple Brandy Aged 2 Years

  Variety: Apple
  Made by: Clear Creek Distillery (Hood River Distilleries), Oregon

  An eau de vie de pomme aged two years in Limousin oak. This is the one you use to make fruitcake, to deglaze a pan-fried steak, for the recipe that calls for Calvados, in some dandy apple brandy cocktails and wherever “applejack” is called for. Great in a wintertime toddy too. More…

  

  $39.99
  Dry
  Brandy, Eau de Vie, Spirit
  No Sulfites Added

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  Clear Creek Cranberry Liqueur

  Variety: Cranberry
  Made by: Clear Creek Distillery (Hood River Distilleries), Oregon

  A savvy grower from Bandon persuaded us to create a liqueur with this beautiful fruit and we are very pleased with the results. This liqueur is entirely true to the cranberries: dark red, tart, lightly sweet, and very fruity. More…

  

  $25.99
  Sweet
  Liqueur
  No Sulfites Added

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  Douglas Fir Brandy by Clear Creek

  Variety: Douglas Fir
  Made by: Clear Creek Distillery (Hood River Distilleries), Oregon

  Our Douglas Fir Brandy is a source of pride, distinguished by its signature green color and complex flavors from bright springtime Douglas Fir buds handpicked in the Pacific Northwest. More…

  

  $49.99
  Dry
  Brandy, Spirit
  No Sulfites Added, Organic Douglas Fir

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  Pear Brandy by Clear Creek

  Variety: Pear
  Made by: Clear Creek Distillery (Hood River Distilleries), Oregon

  Classic eau de vie de poire distilled in German-made pot stills using Williams (Bartlett) pears from Clear Creek’s own orchards in Parkdale, Oregon. The pear nose is intense, the taste is strong, but pure, and the aftertaste is clean with a surprisingly strong hint of pear. Their longtime best-seller. More…

  

  $48.99
  Dry
  Brandy, Eau de Vie, Spirit
  No Sulfites Added