4 Spirits Distillery sits in an industrial area of Corvallis, Oregon, where founders Steve and Kathy Hale decided to turn their passion for craft spirits into a small-batch operation. The husband-and-wife team opened their doors in 2014 after Steve, a former engineer, spent years perfecting recipes in their garage. The distillery operates out of a converted warehouse space on Deschutes Street, where they focus on producing vodka, gin, whiskey, and seasonal liqueurs using Pacific Northwest ingredients. The Hales handle most operations themselves, from mashing and distilling to bottling and labeling, keeping things deliberately small-scale. Their 250-gallon copper still dominates the production floor, and you’ll often find Steve explaining the intricacies of their grain-to-glass process to visitors. The tasting room feels more like visiting friends than a commercial operation – casual seating, local art on the walls, and bottles lined up behind a simple bar where Kathy often serves tastings herself. They’ve built a reputation locally for their smooth vodka and botanical-forward gin, with whiskey aging in barrels stacked along the warehouse walls for future releases.