These Bad To The Bone Beards & Magnificent Mustaches rocked a very hairy event for The Humane Society of Central Oregon saving animals lives at GoodLife Brewing & BackDrop Distilling.
Adopt a mustache, adopt a beard, adopt a dog, adopt a cat, adopt the next time you want to add an animal to your family!
Thank you to The Central Oregon Mustache & Beard Society, Salty Saints Social Club & Facial Hair Society, Portland Beardsmen, our Bearded Boys out of Boise & so many more who came together to rock the 2017 Mustache & Beard Comp!
Casey Lillibridge... you are... "the man".
These are the businesses that made it happen:
Bishops, Humm Kombucha, Oregrown, Hempies West, Dr. Jolly's Bend, Silipint, Cog Wild Mountain Bike Tours & Shuttle, Drink Up, The Hideaway Tavern, Bend Escape Room, Silly Dog Art Glass by Cheryl Chapman, Gastoir Prints, JP Mechanical Inc, Worthy Brewing, Troutdoors Marketing and Media, Facial Hair League - The FHL, Incredible Events, Folio Grow, Portlock Construction, Spooky Dawson Arts, Media & Film, BackDrop Distilling & GoodLife Brewing.
Special shout out to our judges: Darin Hanson of Salty Saints Social Club & Facial Hair Society, Kevin Cuff of C.O.M.B.S., Mallory Carter or Portland Beardsmen, Madison Edward Rowley also of Portland Beardsman, Rose Geil, Landon Michael Gillespie, Matt Chiquetet McGregor from Boise.
"I'm humble to have all these beards & mustaches in my distillery after such an amazing evening. It just gets better every year!"
Stay tuned for our bearded film coming out next week featuring all the amazing fake & real beards who came out for this amazing cause! Salut to all of these gentlemen & their ladies who are welcome in our backyard anytime.
Help us tag all these Bearded Brothas & Mustached Men!
#MustacheRide #BeardedForYourPleasure #TheBeardedBackDrop#OrganicVodka #GoodLifeBrewing #BishopsBarberShop#PortlandBeardsman #SaltySaints #COMBS #HumaneSociety#BackDropDistilling
Also a shout out to The Bend Spay & Neuter Project on the front lines of keeping people and pets together!
JBPhotography (Jacy Sequeira Brooks) one of the top winners in our #WhatsYourBackDrop photography contest. Recommend booking her for projects, weddings, product shots, anything.
TO OUR BEND ARTISTS: Thank you for what you do. Keep the creativity alive. Follow your dreams no matter what. Inspiring.
#WhatsYourBackDrop #JBPhotography #GeniusPhotography #BackDropDistilling #OrganicVodka #JacyBrooks #BeautifulArt #LivingTheDream #WatersOfTumaloCreek #BendOregon
Jacy, love your heart, your work. Thank you for joining us for the VIP GoodLife Brewing / BackDrop Distilling tour last night. Looking forward to working with you on a few projects.
An Awesome rafting adventure is pretty good too though.... 
So incredibly proud of our community, we are feeling inspired, grateful, and blessed after such an impassioned event!
Psyched to award a Free Rafting Trip Contest with Nate's Rogue Adventures & celebrate an amazing event: GoodLife Biergarten Smiles of Hope & Healing For Saving Grace presented by Distinctive Dentistry of Bend Oregon.
Big Cheers go out to Cheriee Perrine who is the lucky winner of this rafting adventure! You go girl! Keep that beautiful giving spirit!
Thank you from the very bottom of our hearts to absolutely everyone who heard our call to action and participated in this contest! We were overjoyed with the response & support this community showed for Saving Grace Imagine Life Without Violence. We will continue our work for this organization & encourage you to do the same! Speak up, Speak out, Break the Silence, Break The Cycle! Thank you Bend, OR!
#DistinctiveDentistry #ReasonsToSmile #BackDropDistilling #SavingGrace #NatesRogue #StopDomesticViolence #AwarenessInBend
What's your dog's favorite trick! We'll be serving cocktails at this awesome event in Drake Park Saturday May 27th! Proud to be sponsoring with GoodLife Brewing.
"If I win do I get a Double Gold Medal just like BackDrop Distilling?!"
GoodLife Brewing, a local Bend Brewery, is providing the cold beer and BackDrop Distilling, the first distillery inside a brewery in Oregon, will be featuring handcrafted cocktails made from our winning Organic Wheat Vodka for those who want a bit more bite to their bark! Come out and see us for a taste of our Double Gold Award Winning Vodka and you may meet some glory hounds with their own awards to show off once the Dog Competitions get under way!
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN at BendSnip.org!!!! Contests fill quickly. Win beautiful prizes by enrolling in our hilarious dog competitions!
BEST TRICK, BEST VOICE, OWNER DOG LOOK ALIKE, BEST KISSER & MORE!
All to benefit Bend Spay & Neuter Project "Keeping People & Pets Together!"
This beautiful event is happening because of all our sponsors & especially our big boy sponsor Bend Pet Resort LLC! This hilarious event would not be happening without them.
Special thank you to Healthy Bend Dental Implant Center & Distinctive Dentistry of Bend Oregon for continue'd sponsorship!
Dancin Woofs Compassionate Dog Training and Daycare, Bend Pet Express, Sweetheart Donuts, Riverside Animal Hospital and so many more!
Enroll your K-9 in one of these awesome dog competitions at BendSnip.org
#HandCraftedCocktails #UnleashTheSpirits #BendOregon #DistilleryBendBackDrop Distilling#nipclub#InBend
No matter who you are, where you come from, no matter your level of education, your age, no matter how you look or don't look, how much money you have & no matter what others think of you... it's all about risking everything for your dreams...
Before I opened BackDrop Distilling I was a sound engineer for bands like BEN HARPER, WILLIE NELSON, THE PIXIES & so many amazing artists as they rolled through Bend. My dream was to open a craft distillery, create my own BackDrop & bring beautiful craft spirits to life.
THERE IS NO RIGHT TIME TO PURSUE YOUR DREAM: you just have to do it... as in right now. Make a plan & go, jump, leap... risk everything & don't look back. We are here only one time. Shouldn't we spend it creating, doing & sharing what we love?
BackDrop Distilling opened in April a few years ago, located inside GoodLife Brewing & I'm proud to announce that our Vodka has now received international double gold, silver & bronze medals from New York, Los Angeles & Seattle right outta' Bend Oregon:)
The most important award in all of it though sincerely has been all of you. You who support local Distilleries & Breweries in our Backyard! You who've had / have a bottle of BackDrop Organic Wheat Vodka in your freezer! You have been a part of the movement of craft spirits, hand crafted cocktails / mixology and for all of us craft distilleries I want to thank you...
Creating your own world is a state of mind & a series of steps. Design backwards from your destination to where you stand, then climb the ladder, believe in it, explore it, research it, master it, practice it, own it, live it, love it, and enjoy the journey. Sound cheesy? Bend is FULL of beautiful entrepreneurs / artists & I wanted to take a moment to celebrate your Spirit, your Courage, your Passion!.
The back of my bottle reads:
"Creating your own BackDrop is about SMASHING the norms, BEND-ing the rules & exploring your passions at all costs. Break open a bottle of BackDrop Vodka and #EnterTheSpiritWorld with style. Your theme song awaits...
So... I'd like to invite anyone who comments with their theme song below (the one that gets you motivated to go kick ass at your dreams) to our VIP tasting of our BackDrop Gin coming out this summer! I'll privately send you two tickets to say thank you for your support.
CLOUDCHASER COCKTAIL
Handcrafted cocktails by Teyenna Clevenger who is the mixologist at Mt. Bachelor! She is an amazing mixologists and we love hanging out with her.
CLOUDCHASER COCKTAIL
Handcrafted cocktails by Teyenna Clevenger who is the mixologist at Mt. Bachelor! She is an amazing mixologists and we love hanging out with her.
Mt Bachelor celebrated by reaching out to us ... BackDrop Distilling. Featuring our international award winning Vodka, Mt. Bachelor's mixologist Teyanna M Clevenger Pototskiy created a brilliant cocktail they of course named "The BackDrop CloudChaser". In this film we see how BackDrop hides a mixologists craft cocktail recipe inside every bottle which they literaly bottle by hand right here in their distillery.
Mixologist T. Clevenger joined BackDrop as seen in this film to bottle a run that features 'her' CloudChaser creation which is now in liquor stores in Central Oregon. THE STATS OF THE NEW CLOUD CHASER LIFT ARE IMPRESSIVE:
6576 feet in length, 21 towers, capable of moving 2400 people an hour lifting powder junkies 1448 vertical feet to the top of a mountain, Mt Bachelor's new lift was given the name THE CLOUDCHASER & is a milestone for Central Oregon.
Horizontal Length 6,576 feet, Vertical Rise 1,448 feet
Number of Chairs 141, Number of Towers 21, Uphill Capacity 2,400 people per hour
Additional Groomed Runs 6.2 miles/36 acres, Additional Skiable Acres 635 acres
Total Skiable Acres 4,318 acres
The name Cloudchaser pays tribute to the mountain’s unique weather patterns and the phenomenon whereby approaching clouds from the west tend to dissipate and disappear altogether as they wrap around the summit and pass to Mt. Bachelor’s east side. Below our some lift stats & inside this film is a tour of the hand bottling process & The CloudChaser run itself!
Legendary mixologist Teyanna M Clevenger Pototskiy created the CloudChaser cocktail. You'll see her in this film helping Mark Plants of BackDrop as he hand bottles ... every single bottle locally. Inside each bottle is a recipe that he hides featuring a legendary cocktail. On this run of course it is The BackDrop CloudChaser cocktail recipe.
JDUB is an amazing bar in downtown Bend Oregon bringing the heat on craft cocktails.
They've recently used BackDrop Distilling's Award Winning Vodka to create a Jalapeno / Cucumber infused craft cocktail that is off the hook. Shout out to Jon Weber & his team.
And head on over to JDUB in Downtown Bend, Oregon to try one of these vodka cocktails for yourself!
#DistilleryBend #DistilleryOregon #VodkaOregon #OregonVodka #DrinkOregon
Looking for a great new vodka cocktail recipe to try? How about the Lemondrop Sunset, featuring BackDrop Distilling's Award-Winning Vodka?
All you need is a few simple ingredients and you're good to go. So it's an easy cocktail creation to make at home, or even for parties.
LEMONDROP SUNSET By BackDrop Distilling:
1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
2 oz Award Winning BackDrop Distilling Vodka
1 Single Drop of Vanilla Extract (optional)
Dip rim of martini glass in raw sugar
Shake & strain into martini glass.
Garnish with a sliced lemon wheel floating in the glass, if desired.
Sip, enjoy, REPEAT!
Click to see where you can pick up a bottle of BackDrop Distilling's vodka.
#DistilleryBend #DistilleryOregon #VodkaOregon #OregonVodka #DrinkOregon