bellewood acres

Thank you for your visit! We are so happy to make you happy! Cheers from BelleWood Acres Distilling and Event Center!

Reserved the private room for a family birthday party. We had a very nice lunch and received excellent service and hospitality. There is much to see, sample, and purchase. We all had a very enjoyable time. John H

Went here for the large apples and the vodka. The staff and owners are just so helpful and full of information we bought peanut butter, jam and I am not a pie person but they had the best blackberry pie I wand them to deliver. You can have lunch the

There aren't many places that are cool for both kids and adults and Bellewood Acres is one of those few, provided, of course, that the kid in the adult is still willing to be enthralled. Tom and I love this place, especially when they have one of their many events with funky music and festivities. The restaurant part (we usually share the Apple Hog sandwich) isn't open year round, but I think is from May through maybe December? You really have to check out their website to get a good idea of all they offer, but to name a few there are tours, u-pick apples and pumpkins, a bistro, a bakery, a separate vodka distillery, fantastic gift ideas, and apple tasting. You don't get much more local or much more creative than this place. It is one of our favorite places to go to brighten any day!

Went here for the first time for my work Christmas party. Had heard mixed reviews and have to say it was nice, nice little gift shop, did not take the distillery tour, (not my thing) did try their house made hard cider which was good. Dinner wasn't knock your socks off great but it was pretty tasty the dessert was excellent and good service.

We were at a vintage trailer rally at the fairgrounds in Lynden. We passed this place and they were distilling their own liquor. We stopped.The taste was a little rough for me but they were evolving and getting to more aging later. I passed.But, the store had fresh cider and all kinds of stuff. Apples and more. The café was great and I got a cider slushie or smoothy and that was tasty. The service was great, the place clean and neat. Enjoyable.

My girlfriend brought me here for lunch. First we had a tasting of Vodkas. The guy at the bar was very knowledgable and friendly. Then we tasted apples and peanut butter. (yum!) After we enjoyed the gift shop, we decided to have a little lunch. I had a cup of chili that was the best I've had in a very long time. Just the right amount of spice with onions and cheese on top. The corn muffin was the perfect size. All in all it was a very fun afternoon!

Went on the BelleWood Acres distillery tour this weekend. The guy who gave the tour was great, knew a lot about distilling. He had us taste things in all sorts of stages of the process (oddly enough by sticking our finger in and licking it!). The formal tasting room was great too! I liked seeing how things transformed to the flavors that they are in the bottle.However, we spend $10 on the tour and then $30 on a bottle of brandy. Then we wanted to go out to the apple trees to look/pick and they wanted us to spend another $3 to do that. It felt a lot like they were nickel-and-diming us. When we asked if the "train" to the apples was included in the tour, we were told no, even though the website implies otherwise. (It is supposed to be a "farm to bottle" tour.) This left a bad taste in what was otherwise a great experience with the farm.

Here's how the BelleWood web site describes the the "farm to glass" distillery tour: "This NEW tour includes a ride through the apple orchard to learn about our agricultural practices and what makes our spirits so special. Tour the distillery to learn the distillation process and enjoy a private tasting."Here's what the "tour", which costs $10 each, actually entails: Walking into the warehouse where the distillery is housed (and which is visible from large windows next to the bar at no cost) and standing around for an hour listening to the (very engaging) distiller explain the process. You do get a chance to dip your fingers into various vats and taste and the distiller was very interesting, but it's not exactly a tour.Here's what's NOT included: "a ride through the apple orchard" -- nope, they will charge you $3 extra a head for that, even if you just spent $10 on the tour and another $30 buying liquor. "a private tasting" -- a tasting yes, but it's in the same bar as everyone else can go and you get exactly the same tastings that you can just walk into the place and have for free. If you are a serious brewing/distilling geek, the $10 might be worth it to be up close and have more time. But virtually everyone else would be better off just sitting at the bar, viewing the equipment from about 10 feet away and enjoying a free tasting while asking your questions of whoever is serving at the bar.The rest of the place (cafe, store, picnic tables, "train" (ie wooden carts attached to a tractor) to the orchards) is fine, and would make a nice stop if you're in the area, even if only for the stunning view of Mount Baker from the back. But not worth going out of your way for at all.

We recently went to Bellewood Acres for the Easter Egg Hunt. While we have been there many times prior for the great food and of course the apples, this experience was horrible. Clearly they didn't anticipate how many people would show up, and their lack of organization was not only apparent but overwhelming bad.Advertised train rides, egg hunt and photo ops with the Easter Bunny were a nice thought but soon turned into families standing in line for hours to get on a train for a specific time, and when it was finally their turn they would run out of space on the trains and have to stand in line for another hour, or told they could walk out to the Easter Egg hunt themselves, really that was a solution, after standing for an hour and paying $7 for a ticket. Was the staff selling tickets for times that I guess they were just making up as they went along?? I personally walked with my 2 year old out to the egg hunt (which by the way wasn't a short jaunt) only to make it there after the trains and no eggs left for my child to hunt for. The gift bags had a few small pieces of candy and an activity book, very disappointing. Food service, we ordered a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich and waited almost an hour for them to make it. No wonder kids were having melt downs and parents were all stressed out,it was just pure chaos the entire time we were there. If you plan on hosting any future public events please consider a professional event coordinator.