30A Vodka

30A Vodka is a Florida-made corn vodka distilled at Timber Creek Distillery in Crestview, about an hour north of Seaside. It is built for the way people drink along Scenic Highway 30A: long, cold, citrus-forward drinks poured on a porch or beside a pool, where a soft corn vodka works better than a sharp one.

Quick Facts

• Style: Corn vodka, 80 proof
• Grain: 100% Florida-grown corn
• Water: Florida limestone spring water
• Still: Copper pot still
• Made in: Crestview, Florida, on a 240-acre family farm
• Distance from 30A: About an hour from Seaside

Why a corn vodka suits 30A drinking

The 30A corridor runs from Inlet Beach to Dune Allen through Seaside, WaterColor, Grayton Beach, and Rosemary Beach, and most of the drinking there happens outdoors, in the heat, over ice, with fruit. Corn vodka fits that setting because corn’s higher starch content ferments into a rounder, gently sweet spirit. In a vodka soda with a squeeze of grapefruit or a tall glass of vodka and fresh lemonade, that softness reads as smoothness rather than burn, so the drink stays easy from the first sip to the last watered-down inch.

The 30A towns also favor products with a real origin story over big-brand imports with a beach on the label. 30A Vodka is distilled, proofed, and bottled in Crestview, inland, from corn grown in Florida and water drawn from Florida limestone. Nothing is trucked in as neutral spirit and relabeled.

What does 30A Vodka taste like?

30A Vodka is soft, clean, and slightly sweet, with more body than an industrial column-still vodka.

Nose

Clean and restrained, with light corn sweetness and a mild mineral note from the limestone spring water. No solvent character, no artificial notes.

Palate

Smooth and slightly sweet on entry, with corn character carrying through the mid-palate. The texture is rounder than wheat vodka, and the copper pot still leaves more body than a neutral column-still spirit.

Finish

Clean, brief, and soft. Mild sweetness fades to gentle warmth with no lingering bitterness.

Porch and pool pours for a 30A week

Vodka soda, Florida citrus: 2 oz 30A Vodka, soda water, a squeeze of ruby red grapefruit or Meyer lemon over plenty of ice. The corn softness means you can go light on the citrus and it still tastes finished.

Gulf Coast lemonade: 2 oz vodka topped with fresh lemonade and a few muddled mint leaves. Batch it in a pitcher for the beach house.

Moscow Mule: Ginger beer and lime over crushed ice. The rounder corn base keeps the ginger from turning harsh.

Dirty martini, stirred: A softer, rounder martini than wheat vodka gives you. Stir rather than shake and finish with olive brine and a lemon peel.

Corn vodka or wheat vodka?

Timber Creek makes both. Florida Vodka is distilled from 100% North Florida Red Soft Winter Wheat and won Gold for Best Domestic Vodka at The Fifty Best; it is drier and crisper. 30A Vodka is the corn expression: rounder, a touch sweeter at mid-palate, and the easier of the two in long, fruit-driven drinks. If you are stocking a beach house bar for a week, 30A Vodka is the one that disappears first. For more on how grain choice shapes the spirit, see how vodka is made.

Where to buy 30A Vodka

30A Vodka is sold at select retailers along the South Walton coast and at the distillery tasting room in Crestview. If you are planning things to do beyond the beach, the distillery is a natural half-day trip; see our guide to 30A activities for the drive and what to pair it with.

Taste it at the source

The tasting room in Crestview pours the full vodka lineup side by side, so you can compare the corn-based 30A Vodka against the wheat-based Florida Vodka and pick the one for your bar. Book a Distillery Tour and Tasting before you head back to the coast.