Midtown Spirits

Midtown Spirits at a Glance

Midtown Spirits has 9 distinct products with 20 total TTB label approvals, including Vodka - Other Flavored, Vodka 80-89 Proof. Labels approved between 2020-07-23 and 2025-09-08. Label origins on file: California.

At a Glance data sourced from public TTB records.

Midtown Spirits

Midtown Spirits, started by Jason Poole and Dave Abrahamsen, opened its flagship location on 19th Street in 2019, What Now Sacramento wrote in 2024. Comstock's, for its part, wrote that the founders never could have guessed they would be launching at the height of a pandemic.

How Midtown Spirits opened

Poole and Abrahamsen were veteran bartenders when Poole began making his own Bloody Mary mix in 2014, Comstock's wrote in June 2024. The success of that business, Preservation & Co., led the partners to envision opening Midtown Spirits, the magazine added. "We decided to complete the cocktail and open up a distillery," Poole told the magazine, describing a bar built to highlight the gins, vodkas, and cold brew coffee liquor they would make.

They wanted quality cocktails quickly, so the bar runs a pre-batched slushie program and cocktails on draft, Poole told Comstock's. At the start all they could do was to-go drinks, he said, and people visiting the newly finished dog park across the street stopped in for to-go cocktails. Poole and Abrahamsen have not forgotten the dog lovers who first spread word of Midtown Spirits, and in their honor the distillery runs charitable drives for Front Street Animal Shelter and the local SPCA chapter, the magazine wrote.

The distiller and the production process

Distiller Jonathan Piner was born and raised in Sacramento, joined the distillery in 2021, and worked his way up from barback to head distiller, Inside Sacramento wrote in a 2025 sponsored post. He calls distilling "a combination of art and science," the post said. The distillery once used local Jasmine rice as its spirit base, but the time and effort spent unclogging equipment made that unworkable, so it switched to neutral corn spirits distilled before arrival, by the same account.

Seasonal gins and flavored vodkas

In June 2024, Comstock's reported that the distillery had created gins for all four seasons and had just released its spring gin, and it quoted Piner saying the first-ever rums were about to come out. The vodka varieties include cucumber, strawberry, pineapple chili, very berry, and ginger lime, Inside Sacramento wrote in its 2025 post. The post listed local ingredients: pickles from Stockton for the dill pickle vodka, San Francisco Bay Coffee, based in Lincoln, for the cold brew coffee liquor, and almonds from Blue Diamond.

A barrel-aged negroni of the distillery's gin, sweet vermouth, and Campari spends 11 months in oak, and three rums cure in former whiskey barrels for around two years, Inside Sacramento reported in April 2025. The post also described plans for whiskey.

The airport expansion plan

Midtown Spirits hoped to open a bar, tasting area, and restaurant at Sacramento International Airport in November, Inside Sacramento wrote in April 2025. See the TTB label records for Midtown Spirits on this page.

Sources

• Comstock's magazine (comstocksmag.com). “Luscious Libations.” Scott Thomas Anderson, 21 June 2024. https://www.comstocksmag.com/article/luscious-libations
• Inside Sacramento (insidesacramento.com). “Natural High.” Gabrielle Myers, sponsored post, April 2025. https://insidesacramento.com/natural-high-2/
• What Now Sacramento (whatnow.com). “Midtown Spirits to Join Sacramento International Airport.” Xiao daCunha, 18 March 2024. https://whatnow.com/sacramento/restaurants/midtown-spirits-to-join-sacramento-international-airport/
• TTB Public COLA Registry via BUY.VODKA data snapshot (src/data/labels.json, local build 31 October 2026). “Midtown Spirits” label approvals. Local read-only query, 31 October 2026.

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