About us

Founded in 2010, The Hive Winery and Spirits Company is a small boutique winery and craft distillery, specializing in premium "non-grape" fruit wines, honey wines (known as Meads and Melomels), hard apple ciders, brandies, and specialty spirits. The result of two engineers with an enjoyment of wine making and a certain level of insanity. Jay and Lori Yahne always enjoyed making wine as a hobby. During 2008 an offhanded remark about turning wine making into a career spiraled into the realization of this unique winery and distillery. One thing that has not changed over the years is a love of creating, which means you will often find these two working on a new idea or flavor, creating an ever expanding product line.

We are truly committed to the craft of our work and are very hands on with each step of the process. We love to create and are pleased to offer our customers products that are unlikely to be found elsewhere. We do produce some larger batches of our core wines, especially those products we have available through the State stores, our seasonal batches are much smaller, typically 30 to 150 gallons, (150 to 750 bottles). These seasonal batches are around for a limited time, and some are only produced every 3 to 4 years. 

The Hive Spirits Company is Utah's first Brandy Distillery and runs the smallest commercial still in the state, a 25 gallon pot still. We are taking the art of being a micro-distillery to a new level of small, so small in fact we consider ourselves to be a “nano”-distillery, producing just 16 to 30 barrels per YEAR. 

Utah has a strong agricultural heritage, and we are proud to help support that heritage, crafting our wines using fruit and honey from local farmers as much as possible. We work closely with our fruit farmers to get our fruits at the peak of ripeness. Currently our suppliers include Pettingill's Fruit Farm in Willard, Rowley's Red Barn in Santiquin, Yack Brothers Honey in Roosevelt, Week's Berries of Paradise in Cache Valley, Days Farms in Layton, Payson Fruit Growers CO-OP, and Frost Family Farms in Layton along with other local farms along the Wasatch Front. We also work with Daily Rise Coffee in Layton to provide ingredients for some of our finished products. We believe in living local which means making every effort to support our local farmers and producers. 

We challenge you to explore something new. If you think you know all about fruit wines, think again, we craft a unique style of fruit wine, with finishes ranging from dry to sweet. Our brandies are true brandies, which means they are a hard spirit not unlike rum or whiskey, not the sweet, flavored products that have become commonly associated with brandy.

We NEVER use artificial flavors or colors when creating our wines or spirits. Although we do make wine and spirits with a lot of different fruits, we have one simple governing guideline for the fruit we use - if we won't drink it, we won't make it.

We hope you enjoy our products as much as we enjoy bringing them to you.

Cheers!