Posted On May 5th, 2025

Gulch Distillers, Helena’s finest distillery, has opened a new tasting room and bottle shop at 4 W. Lawrence Street. Open Monday through Saturday from 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM, this tasting room features an expansive cocktail menu and bottle shop. Customers are able to purchase up to 4.5 Liters (six 750ml bottles) of spirits a day and consume cocktails featuring up to two ounces of spirits manufactured by Gulch Distillers.

“We are thrilled to open our new tasting room in the heart of downtown Helena,” said Tyrrell Hibbard, co-owner of Gulch Distillers. “This space gives us a more visible brand headquarters to showcase our handcrafted spirits and cocktails.”

The new tasting room is part of a factory expansion project for Gulch Distillers. Thanks to legislation that passed in 2023, distilleries can now have “non-contiguous” manufacturing. After an extensive remodel of the basement space, a new factory with a dedicated bottling line was added at 4 W. Lawrence Street. This allowed for the transfer of the Gulch Tasting Room to this new factory location. The original Gulch Distillers location at 790 Front Street is now closed to the public and used entirely for manufacturing and storage.

“Our distilling process has been squeezed into too small of a space for too long,” said Steffen Rasile, the other co-owner of Gulch Distillers. “This expansion is much overdue and gives us the needed space to increase our production of award-winning spirits.”

Longtime Helena residents will know the tasting room location as the former home of DeVore’s Saddlery and Western Wear. The remodel process included replacing the concrete basement floor and adding all the necessary upgrades to make an approved manufacturing and retail food facility. The upstairs construction included a handcrafted front and back bar made with 100+ year old wood and drawers as well as the addition of a new handicap accessible restroom. The expansion and relocation project was funded in part by Montana Department of Agriculture’s Growth Through Agriculture Program.

Gulch Distillers is a grain-to-glass microdistillery located in downtown Helena. Their handcrafted spirits include Burrone Fernet, Flying Anvil Whisky, Fruition Apple Brandy, Triple Divide Vodka, Guardian Gin, Guardian Reserve Gin, Flintlock Spiced Rum, Farangi Ouzo, and Burrone Aperitivo. The distillery tasting room is open Monday-Saturday from 2pm-8pm at 4 W. Lawrence Street, Helena, MT.