A “Dragons’ Den” star who heads up a massive beer, wine and spirits empire. The only female master distiller in the province. And a production manager at the 2021 Canadian Brewery of the Year.
Quinn hadn’t planned on moving back to Canada. But shortly before graduating, she read that Eau Claire co-founder David Farran was looking for a master distiller and applied. Quinn says people are a bit shocked when she tells them she’s the master distiller. “Not in a bad way — they just don’t expect it.”
They began with a distillery in Kentucky and soon branched out to other countries, including Mexico and Barbados, making rum, rye, gin, vodka and blended scotch. “People sometimes say to me, ‘I’ve never tried your products,’” Minhas tells me. “I say, ‘Yes, you have — you just didn’t know it.’”