Planet Moonshine

Est. Sprucedale, Ontario · Small Batch

Planet
Moonshine

Borrowed recipes, Canadian ingredients and a hundred-year head start on getting it right. Five small-batch shines, run the old way.

Damn Good Shine.

A loaded 1930s truck on a snow-covered northern road at night

The borrowed recipes

Old Steve went south

The Americans invented moonshine, and we respect them for that. We really do. We just thought it needed a little work. So Old Steve went down south, found the best recipe anyone left sitting out, and drove it eight hundred miles home through winter.

They called it theft. Steve called it research. Then we improved it — better grain, cleaner water, a slower run and a smoother finish.

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Five small-batch shines

The Line

Apple, blockade, southern, sweet tea and maple corn — each one run in small batches and poured into the same glass globe.

The five Planet Moonshine globe bottles lined up in the distillery

The screening room

Eight films from the run north

Night roads, loaded trucks, mason jars and a police car or two. Watch them all in the screening room.

Damn Good Shine.