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cMenamin’s Old St. Francis School is hosting its first distillers festival Saturday., Oct.7. Visitors can sample more than 120 craft spirits from over 20 Oregon Distillers. The evening includes a silent auction where visitors can bid on exclusive prizes such as private distillery tours and tastings, limited edition bottles and overnight stays. Tickets are $35 for 10 tokens or samples.

If you are a McMenamins Whiskey fan (we know there are a ton of you in town), the new Billy Rye Whiskey will be available for purchase before its Oct. 20 launch.

That means you know you’ll get a bottle—they’ve been known to sell out!

Tickets available at mcmenamins.com

This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 4, 2017.

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Little Bites: Inaugural High Desert: Oregon Distillers Festival

by Lisa Sipe, The Source - Bend, Oregon
September 28, 2017

<h1>Little Bites: Inaugural High Desert: Oregon Distillers Festival</h1> <p class="byline">by Lisa Sipe, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />September 28, 2017</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full aligncenter aligncenter"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170126_ed-distillery-9446.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170126_ed-distillery-9446.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-28107" /></a></figure> <p> <span class="fdnDropCap">M</span> </p> <p> cMenamin's Old St. Francis School is hosting its<a href="https://www.mcmenamins.com/events/173788-high-desert-oregon-distillers-festival" target="_blank"><b> first distillers festival </b></a>Saturday., Oct.7. Visitors can sample more than 120 craft spirits from over 20 Oregon Distillers. The evening includes a silent auction where visitors can bid on exclusive prizes such as private distillery tours and tastings, limited edition bottles and overnight stays. <a href="https://www.mcmenamins.com/events/173788-high-desert-oregon-distillers-festival" target="_blank">Tickets are $35 for 10 tokens or samples.</a> </p> <p>If you are a McMenamins Whiskey fan (we know there are a ton of you in town), the new Billy Rye Whiskey will be available for purchase before its Oct. 20 launch. </p> <p> That means you know you'll get a bottle—they've been known to sell out! </p> <p> Tickets available at <a href="http://mcmenamins.com" target="_blank"><b>mcmenamins.com</b></a> </p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/inaugural-high-desert-oregon-distillers-festival-4097923/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=28092&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/inaugural-high-desert-oregon-distillers-festival-4097923/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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