Greenbar Distillery

Greenbar Distillery is the Los Angeles craft spirits operation founded in 2004 by husband-and-wife team Litty Mathew and Melkon Khosrovian — and the first modern legal commercial distillery to operate inside the city of Los Angeles since Prohibition. Located in downtown Los Angeles at 2459 East 8th Street in the Arts District (the converted-industrial neighborhood that's become one of LA's most active craft-food-and-beverage zones over the past decade), Greenbar occupies a working distillery, an on-site tasting room and cocktail bar, and a substantial event-space program in a single integrated facility.

The Greenbar editorial identity is built explicitly around sustainability and organic production. The distillery is certified organic across its entire production pipeline — sourcing organic grain, organic botanicals, organic fruit for the flavored spirits range — and the broader operational philosophy emphasizes verifiable sustainability practices that essentially no other American craft distillery commits to as a foundational identity. The brand has earned multiple sustainability and craft-spirits awards that recognize the organic-certification commitment as a meaningful production differentiator rather than just marketing language.

The product range is unusually broad and includes some of the most editorially distinct flavored spirits in American craft distilling. Greenbar TRU Organic Vodka (the flagship — the brand's most-distributed product, distilled from organic grain), Greenbar TRU Organic Gin, City Bright Citrus Gin (a citrus-forward modern gin), Crusoe Organic Rum, IXÁ Silver Tequila (sourced from a partner Mexican distillery), the extensive Greenbar Bitters line (over a dozen bitters varieties built for cocktail-program use), Greenbar Coffee Liqueur, Greenbar Slow Hand Six Woods Whiskey (a small-batch whiskey aged with six different woods for flavor complexity), and a rotating range of seasonal and limited bottlings. The bitters line in particular has built a substantial following in cocktail-program distribution across the national bar scene.

The downtown Los Angeles Arts District visitor experience makes Greenbar one of the most accessible craft-distillery destinations in the broader LA metro. The 8th Street location puts the operation walking distance from the broader Arts District restaurant cluster, the LA Live entertainment complex, and the downtown LA hotel district. The on-site cocktail bar program runs an active mixology calendar that treats the full Greenbar range as the working palette, with classes, tasting events, and private rentals anchoring the broader visitor programming. For LA visitors building a downtown craft-spirits day, Greenbar is the founding-era LA craft-distillery anchor of the entire modern LA distilling scene.