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Healdsburg's Young & Yonder shakes things up regularly for its cocktail-loving crowd with a "Cocktail of the Month Kit." December’s delicious offering — The Holiday Coffee — includes Young & Yonder Spirits Vodka, Dulce de Leche Syrup, Blue Bottle Coffee Cold Brew Coffee, and Hershey Kisses for garnish. Each kit makes four cocktails and is priced at $45 plus shipping. 449 Allan Court, Healdsburg, (707) 473-8077, youngandyounder.com. (Courtesy of Young & Yonder)
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You can also order kits for Young & Yonder’s take on some of your favorite classic cocktails. The Bourbon Old Fashioned Kit includes Bourbon, Flora Luna Apothecary & Trading Co. Honey Aromatic Bitters and Old Fashioned Syrup, along with a Young & Yonder Spirits logo rocks glass. The kit makes 12 cocktails and costs $80. (Courtesy of Young & Yonder)
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Young & Yonder’s Lime Vodka Mule Cocktail Kit boasts lime flavored vodka, Fever-Tree Ginger Beer, Sonoma Syrup Co. White Ginger Infused Simple Syrup, and logo rocks glass. The kit makes four cocktails (with lime vodka to spare) and costs $50. (Courtesy of Young & Yonder)
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The H.O.B.S. Gin Modern G&T features Young & Yonder Spirits H.O.B.S. Gin, Fever-Tree Tonic Water, King Floyd’s Cardamon Bitters, and logo rocks glass. The kit makes four cocktails (with some gin to spare) and costs $60. (Courtesy of Young & Yonder)
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Josh Opatz, co-founder of Young & Yonder Spirits, bottles hand sanitizer created with alcohol from his Healdsburg distillery, on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Young & Yonder Spirits gave away its first large batch of hand sanitizer for free. The family-owned distillery also donated sanitizer to fire fighters, police officers, city workers, and others. Hand sanitizer is still available from the distillery by special order. (Christopher Chung / The Press Democrat)
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Petaluma’s Griffo Distillery is offering close to two-dozen cocktail kits for purchase on its website. The Smoked Honey Whiskey Sour Cocktail Kit (pictured here) is a variation of the classic whiskey sour. It makes about 12 cocktails. $86.40 plus shipping. 1320 Scott St, Suite A, Petaluma, 707.879.8755, griffodistillery.com (Courtesy of Griffo Distillery)
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The Winter's Remedy Old Fashioned Cocktail Kit includes Griffo Stony Point Whiskey, Bittermilk #1 Bourbon Barrel Aged Old Fashioned Syrup, Dashfire's Chaiwalla Bitters, Eggbert's Premium Cocktail Cherries, and orange peel garnish. $99 plus shipping. (Courtesy of Griffo Distillery)
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The Elder-Hop Tom Collins Cocktail Kit is a twist on a classic. The kits come with Griffo Scott Street Gin, Bittermilk #2 Elderflower Hop Syrup, Floraluna Honey Aromatic Bitters, and Lagunitas Hop Water. $78.30 plus shipping. (Courtesy of Griffo Distillery)
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Griffo Distillery is also producing hand sanitizer. (Courtesy of Griffo Distillery)
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Jenny and Michael Griffo of Griffo Distillery in Petaluma. (Michael Woolsey / for Griffo Distillery)
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Meet Griffo Distillery owners Jenny and Michael Griffo and learn about how they make craft spirits in this video produced by Joshua Dylan Mellars of Northern California Public Media.
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Sebastopol’s Spirit Works Distillery scores bonus points for the fun names attached to its cocktail kits. Think options like The Naked Ape, Rhythm & Booze, Crystal Healing, and Lux Rider (pictured). 6790 McKinley Street #100, Sebastopol, (707) 634-4793, spiritworksdistillery.com. (Courtesy of Spirit Works Distillery)
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Pictured here, what you have to look forward to after purchasing the Lux Rider Kit from Spirit Works Distillery. The kit makes a minimum of 20 cocktails. $138.55 plus shipping. (Courtesy of Lauren Hansen)
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All ingredients in The Local (Floral) Gin and Tonic Kit from Spirit Works Distillery come from Bay Area companies. Along with Spirit Works gin, there’s Superbloom Tonic Syrup, and FloraLuna Apothecary & Trading Co. Rose Petal Bitters. $54.40 plus shipping. (Courtesy of Spirit Works Distillery)
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Distiller Ashby Marshall measures out whole grains before creating the mash for the gin, whiskey and vodka produced at Spirit Works Distillery in Sebastopol. (John Burgess / The Press Democrat)
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Hanson of Sonoma Distillery is taking the guesswork out of mixology by offering both cocktail kits and pre-batched cocktails like the (pictured) Mandarin Greyhound. $30 plus shipping. 22985 Burndale Road, Sonoma, (707) 343-1805, hansonofsonoma.com (Courtesy of Hanson of Sonoma)
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Along with a bottle of Hanson of Sonoma Vodka, the DIY Bloody Mary Cocktail Kit comes with Sonoma Gourmet Organic Bloody Mary Mix. $50 plus shipping. (Courtesy of Hanson of Sonoma)
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If you're looking for something with a little kick, you can sub Hanson’s Habanero Vodka in the DIY Moscow Mule Cocktail Kit. It also includes two bottles of Q Organic Ginger Beer, organic agave, and dehydrated citrus wheels. $60 plus shipping. (Courtesy of Hanson of Sonoma)
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The family behind Hanson of Sonoma Distillery. (Courtesy of Hanson of Sonoma)
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The Sipsong S-I-P Kit includes Indira Gin, Fever-Tree Light Tonic, custom-made mini Flora Luna Apothecary & Trading Co. honey orange bitters, and dried orange for garnish. $59.00 plus shipping. (Shipping in Sonoma County is currently free.) 7759 Bell Road, Windsor, (707) 799-7052, sipsongspirits.com (Courtesy of Sipsong Spirits)
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Sipsong Spirits distiller Tara Jasper (pictured on the right) and Amista winemaker Ashley Herzberg (on the left) collaborated to create the Holiday French 75 Cocktail Kit. It contains Sipsong Indira Gin, Amista Blanc de Blanc and Absinthia Absinthe. (Oakland based Absinthia is also female-owned business.) $89.00 plus shipping. (Shipping in Sonoma County is currently free.) (Courtesy of Sipsong Spirits)
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If you’re more of a spirits purist, Sonoma Distilling Company is offering a Sonoma Whiskey Tasting Kit. The set includes 200ml bottles of four types of whiskey: Sonoma Bourbon, Sonoma Rye Whiskey, Sonoma Cherrywood Rye Whiskey, and Sonoma Cherrywood Smoked Bourbon. $59.99 plus shipping. 5535 State Farm Drive, Rohnert Park, 707-583-7753, sonomadistillingcompany.com (Courtesy of Sonoma Distilling Company)
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There’s some extra goodies in the Sonoma Whiskey Tasting Kit like tasting cards, sample grains, and a Sonoma Distilling Company logo tasting glass. (Courtesy of Sonoma Distilling Company)
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For whiskey lovers interested in adding a virtual aspect to the tasting, Sonoma Distilling Company founder and whiskey-maker, Adam Spiegel, does virtual tastings the second Thursday of the month. (Courtesy of Sonoma Distilling Company)