Clear Creek Distillery

It is most well known for its eau de vie produced from Bartlett pears, though today it also makes a variety of other fruit brandies, aged spirits, and liqueurs.

This endeavor required travel to Europe, where he encountered the Alsace tradition of producing pear eau de vie.

It also makes other traditional varieties of fruit brandy such as an aged apple brandy made from Golden Delicious apples,[6] grappa from Oregon wine grapes,[1] framboise, Mirabelle plum eau de vie, kirschwasser, and slivovitz.

[2] More unusually, Clear Creek produces an eau de vie that includes some of the spring buds of the Douglas fir tree.

[4] Clear Creek also makes a variety of fruit-based liqueurs and McCarthy's Single Malt whiskey.

The distillery's "pear in a bottle" eau de vie