Panama City Beach Vodka

Panama City Beach Vodka is a Florida-made corn vodka distilled at Timber Creek Distillery in Crestview, on the Florida Panhandle. It is the vodka for a full house: the condo with three families in it, the cooler on the sand, the pitcher that needs to please twelve people at once. A soft, rounded corn vodka is the easiest spirit to build crowd drinks on, and this one is made in Florida rather than shipped in and relabeled.

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 Panama City Beach: Under two hours northwest

The vodka for a beach week with a crowd

Panama City Beach is the Panhandle’s big-group town. Twenty-seven miles of beach, Pier Park, family reunions in gulf-front condos, and bachelor and bachelorette weekends that need a bar that scales. The problem with most vodka in a batch drink is edge: a harsh spirit multiplied by a pitcher turns into a drink people nurse instead of finish. Corn vodka solves that. Its natural roundness and light sweetness blend into fruit juice, lemonade, and soda without sharpness, so a batch tastes balanced even when nobody measured very carefully.

Panama City Beach Vodka is distilled from Florida-grown corn and Florida limestone spring water through a copper pot still, then bottled at the distillery. It is the same corn vodka Timber Creek pours in its own tasting room.

What does Panama City Beach Vodka taste like?

Panama City Beach Vodka is soft, clean, and slightly sweet, with more body than a 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 through the mid-palate. Rounder than wheat vodka, with more weight from pot-still distillation.

Finish

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

Batch drinks for the whole condo

Pitcher Gulf Punch (serves 8): 12 oz Panama City Beach Vodka, 16 oz pineapple juice, 8 oz orange juice, 4 oz fresh lime juice, and a splash of grenadine. Stir in a pitcher, pour over ice, top each glass with soda.

Big-batch vodka lemonade (serves 8): 12 oz vodka, 32 oz lemonade, a handful of sliced strawberries, and mint. Chill for an hour before serving so the fruit flavors the batch.

Cooler mules: Pre-mix vodka and lime juice at 2:1, keep it on ice, and top each cup with ginger beer as you pour. Same drink as a Moscow Mule, no copper mug required.

Cosmopolitan, by the round: Shake four at a time. The corn base keeps the cranberry and lime from tasting thin.

Corn vodka or wheat vodka?

Timber Creek makes both. Florida Vodka, distilled from North Florida Red Soft Winter Wheat, is drier and more precise and holds the Gold Medal for Best Domestic Vodka from The Fifty Best. Panama City Beach Vodka is the corn expression: rounder, a touch sweeter, and the better pick for anything mixed by the pitcher. See how vodka is made for why the grain matters.

Where to buy Panama City Beach Vodka

Panama City Beach Vodka is available at select retailers in the Panama City Beach area and at the distillery tasting room in Crestview. If your group wants a day trip inland, our Panama City Beach guide covers the beach side, and the distillery covers the farm side.

Bring the group to the farm

Timber Creek’s 240-acre property in Crestview hosts groups for tours, tastings, and the hands-on Bourbon Blending Experience. Book a Distillery Tour and Tasting and taste every vodka in the lineup before you stock the condo.