Hangar 1 Vodka

Stopped by St. George’s Spirits and Hangar One because I’ve always wanted to see this place. Beautiful interior and décor. The tasting menus looked amazing but it was too early to start with the hard alcohol for me.
Will be back definitely!

So they emailed me and I emailed back.
Hello? No response again. Come on — stop faking the customer service. I’m over you.

What’s not to like? You learn to make booze then drink all types of booze after! The tour and tasting was a blast and very educational. Staff here are awesome and I love the location. I’ll be back in the future cuz I need some more of that Absinthe yo.

This is no longer Hangar One– It’s St. George Spirits. (I think this was the actual name but it was combined with Hanger One.)
I went back to the distillery and found out that they no longer carry Hangar One products and NOW they charge $ 15 for the tasting. They used to be FREE. Probably won’t be returning, and I have brought at least a dozen people in here, and many of them bought alcohol. But, the cost is now prohibitive for me. AND, they no longer carry any vodka, which was the big draw for me.

I recently had the opportunity to tour this place during an alumni event and was amazed at the quality and attention given to both the customers and alcoholic production.
The drive to Hangar One is like a drive back in time. For those of you who don’t know, this place (called Alameda Point) was once a Naval Air Station used in World War II, the Cold War and all the way until 1997 when it was closed down. Although there are no longer any planes here, there is still flight!
I did both the tour and spirit tasting. Drinking the flights here is a much different experience than the Napa tasting experience. You hold the drinks differently, smell the drinks differently, taste the drinks differently and converse with the other tasters differently. For us, the staff were all incredibly helpful and knowledgeable about their products. Any questions we asked were promptly and cleverly answered. The tasting experience was extremely pleasant.
The tour was given to us by Dave Smith, who is one of their major distillers. He is absolutely passionate about his alcohol and tends to draw his listeners into this belief. Like the delicate and evocative botanicals in his gin, Dave was able to mix clever humor, true knowledge and absolute passion into his delivery. I left this place with a renewed desire for fine alcohol and distillery culture.

If you haven’t done this tour yet you really need to get on it!
Firstly, who doesn’t love all the great Hanger One/​St. Georges flavors? Come on Our tour guide, Lauren, was fun, friendly and knowledgeable, I now know more about distilled spirits than I ever thought I would. It’s an interesting and different thing to do on a random Saturday afternoon. Then (the best part!) our bartender, Jim, poured us some lovely tastes so that we could apply what we’d just learned, for educational purposes of course!

What an amazing way to spend a friends birthday on a rainy Sunday afternoon! We bought the advanced tasting tour which included 6 spirit tastings. One being of your choosing. The taste master that served us was informative, friendly and funny. Not in the LEAST bit pretentious as someone with so much knowledge could easily have been. The tour guide Em, (hope I spelled that right?!) made distillery 101 easy and fun with a ton of local history. A great addition to this clearly family like staff that for obvious reasons LOVE what they do and are deservedly proud of their product. I can’t wait to go back! Thanks for a great everyone at Hangar One!

Free tastings and a view of the Bay and the distiling process. what else can you ask for?

This place is so cool the people that run it are super nice they make the BEST Gin ever!!! I am a fan go try it out the tour is allot of fun!

This is a distillery. They used to offer cocktail making lesson until they were told that was outside of their distillery license. A friend scheduled a cocktail making party but because they could no longer do it the party became a tasting. Had 8 or 9 items all OK.
We had lunch catered. Nothing to write home about or to make a special trip.

This is a really good place to go when you want to see where spirits are made. Your tour guide is friendly and humorous. It’s not a big area to tour but you get a lot of information with the tour. At the end of the tour, you get to taste the 10 spirits they have. My oh my… that was probably not my favorite part because I had a mild headache from the night before. They pour you approximately ¹⁄₈ of a shot give or take a little for each drink. I wasn’t a big fan of any of them except for the Firelit Coffee Liquor but that’s just my taste. The Firelit is AWESOME. For $ 15, it’s a pretty great deal if you want to taste them all. It’s also a good place to take visitors to the area.

My party and I arrived with bells on. We didn’t book a reservation, we just picked a good olé lazy Sunday afternoon and drove anxiously across the bay to Alameda to enjoy spirits and laughs. Upon arriving, we quickly realized how important making a reservation was. As our drowned spirits soon started to get the best of us, we were graciously surprised that good olé Hangar One opted to give us «dumbies» a makeshift tour of the site. And boy did we get blessed! In walks our tour guide, the most fantastically hilarious, most witty of all wits, one woman show: Andy. I don’t think she regularly does these tours, and if she does god bless her, but man if laughter didn’t flip flop its way from my mouth to my stomach (i had such a gut ache after our hour escape with her). If you can special request her, i would. she’s just THAT good and so knowledgeable too … its a double whamy of a treat, so just take my word for it, and ask for her :)
The tasting is great too. It’s not just Vodka you taste though … so if your thing ain’t vodka, rest assured you’ll be swallowing lots of gin, bourban, and brandy too. (btw. not a brandy fan. their Pear Brandy … hells yes. sooooo good)
The pours aren’t big, so don’t expect to get way tipsty but do expect to try some amazing liqueur.
If you haven’t been, are thinking of going, have been and want to go again … do go. It’s a fun 3 or 4 hours and a great time to enjoy laughter. and personally, i’m all about laughter.