Alaska Distillery is a grassroots operation comprised of a group of passionate, inventive artists who create world class, hand-crafted, award winning vodkas. Follow founder/CEO Toby Foster and his team as they explore the wilderness to harvest the finest exotic ingredients Mother Nature has to offer this season on ALASKA PROOF.
Genre: Reality-TV
Toby and Andy join Scott on a boat trip into Prince William Sound in search of the perfect icebergs for their vodka. Meanwhile, Chrissy takes Shane along as she faces her fear of bees in order to collect some of Alaska's fireweed honey for a "Buzz" order.
The Alaska Distillery uses melt-water from 10,000 year old glaciers in proofing their vodka, so Toby and Andy join Scott on a boat trip into Prince William Sound in search of the perfect icebergs. Meanwhile, Chrissy takes Shane along as she faces her fear of bees in order to collect some of Alaska's award-winning fire weed honey, which the distillery needs if it's going to make enough of their "BUZZ" flavor vodka.
Toby thinks the distillery can use the safe, ginger-like root of poisonous Devil's Club to make a spicy line of vodka. Shane, Chrissy, and he kayak across the Eklutna Lake to forage the plant, while Scott tests the right proof to set the flavor on fire.
Convinced that they can distill a special vodka under the Northern Lights and in subzero temperatures, the team travels to Chena Hot Springs, hitching a ride on a tracked vehicle up a mountain before strapping on their snow shoes with their still in tow.
The distillery creates a new flavor using the springtime growths from the tips of the Sitka Spruce tree - climbing to the top of an almost 200 ft tree to harvest the ingredient - and donate the proceeds to Alaskan rain forests conservation efforts.
The distillery is commissioned to come up with both a new vodka flavor AND a new cocktail for a local restaurant. The team heads out on a shrimping boat, and must figure out how to make a tasty spirit with Alaska's particularly sweet species of shrimp.
A quest for fire weed takes the team across glacial terrain and through bear habitats when they want to use the flower's essence in a new vodka.
A search for ice worms sends Toby, Andy and Shane on a glacial expedition. Meanwhile, Scott works on updating the distillery's equipment.