Straight from Montreal, these spirits from CIRKA Distilleries are just what’s missing from your craft cocktail recipes. Designed by Compagnie & Cie, the bottles use a variety of inspiration to create something quintessentially Canadian. From the color palette to main brand icon, CIRKA’s packaging and branding creates a high-end cocktail and drinking experience.
“Our goal was to build a new brand from the ground up for a new spirits craft distillery located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The distillery is focused on creating high quality spirits (vodka, gin and whisky) as an expression of the province’s terroir which is rich in corn, malt, rye and botanicals from the Boréal forest. The spirits produced are also very inspired by the city’s creative energy so the target was to create something that is part urban with a rural influence, and modern with a rustic edge.”
“The source of inspiration for the brand (tone, colors, textures, and shapes) was heavily influenced by the distillery itself as well as the area in Montreal in which the distillery is located – an urban industrial area right near the historic Lachine canal. Natural materials such as stone, concrete, wood, copper, oxidized copper, metal, brick, and cardboard were combined as materials used in the space and in the packaging as well. Our CIRKA cocktails are inspired by Montréal’s streets, locations, as well as other symbols from our fair city. The caribou is Québec’s national animal and symbolizes nature – we wanted a confident yet playful icon that could symbolize our province rather than use a politically charged symbol.”
