Visit Our Guests

The distilleries behind our episodes

Every distillery on this page has been a guest on Hearts 'n Tales. Listen to their episode, then go see them in person. Hours change, so check before you go.

Central Florida

Caribbean Moonshine

📍 8200 Vineland Ave, #240, Orlando, FL 32821 (Orlando Vineland Premium Outlets)

Hours: Tours by booking; check hours before you go

Fun fact: A visitor from Barbados tasted their rum, called her husband over, and their shine ended up being poured at his album launch at Paramount.

Yalaha Bootlegging Co. at Blue Bayou Farms

📍 8222A County Road 48, Yalaha, FL 34797

Hours: Tue-Sun 10 AM-5 PM

Fun fact: The heads from every run go to the local fire ant mound. "I'm not very popular with them."

Loggerhead Distillery

📍 124 W. 2nd Street, Sanford, FL 32771

Hours: Sun 12-5; Mon-Tue closed; Wed-Thu 2-8; Fri-Sat 2-9

Fun fact: Oranges falling in the founder's yard started it all, but he never got around to distilling them.

Atlantic Coast

Copper Bottom Craft Distillery

📍 998 N Beach St., Holly Hill, FL 32117

Hours: Wed-Thu 12-7; Fri-Sat 12-9; Sun-Tue closed

Fun fact: In 2020 they made 50 gallons of hand sanitizer overnight, and a Navy helicopter picked it up for the USS Gerald R. Ford.

Indian River Distillery

📍 3308 Aviation Blvd, Vero Beach, FL 32960

Hours: Wed-Thu 3-10; Fri 3-11; Sat 12-11; Sun 12-8; Mon-Tue closed

Fun fact: For bottle number 100 they ran a countywide scavenger hunt, with a hidden voucher, an 1880s cemetery and Fellsmere's suffrage monument.

Nature Coast

Homosassa Distillery Co.

📍 8759 West Tradeways Court, Homosassa, FL 34448

Hours: Wed-Thu 2-8; Fri-Sat 1-10; Sun 12-6; Mon-Tue closed

Fun fact: Let Marc pick your cocktail. If you don't like it, he buys it back.

Tampa Bay

Tarpon Springs Distillery

📍 605 N. Pinellas Ave., Tarpon Springs, FL 34689

Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu, Sun 1-6:30; Wed, Fri, Sat 1-10

Fun fact: For their Guaco Loco gin they peel, pit and cut 140 avocados for the gin basket.

South Florida

Big Cypress Distillery

📍 8771 SW 133rd Street, Miami, FL 33176

Hours: Wed 4-11; Thu-Fri 4 PM-12 AM; Sat 1 PM-1 AM; Sun 1-8

Fun fact: Co-owner Fernando Plata contributed to Postgres and Slackware under a pseudonym.