Production places
Connections to water sources, peat places, maltings, cooperages, warehouses and maturation sites. Uncertain connections are labelled.
No documented production places are linked to this distillery yet.
History
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Northfield high school classmates Simeon and Mark began in January 2011 with Simeon\'s homemade coffee liqueur.
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Since then, they have nearly daily explored the biological, chemical, and business aspects of the distillation industry.
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In November 2012 they launched a reservation/microfinancing campaign, which raised USD 11,500 from over 100 people; they used this, along with an angel investment, to obtain an SBA loan in July.
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While they were completing construction in November 2013, they were the only two people in southern Minnesota to receive federal permission to produce spirits in over 100 years.
Production
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Scratch-made organic spirits, craft cocktails, house-made non-alcoholic drinks, and stone-milled pizza in a historic 1916 building.
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New larger, custom-built distillation equipment enables increased production capacity, including Minnesota\'s first peat-smoked whiskey.
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Ethics at the core: ethics remain paramount.
Products / Whisky Series
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Over 20 handcrafted organic spirits.
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Minnesota\'s first peat-smoked whiskey.
Visits / Experiences
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Cocktail Room now open and immersive tours of our production equipment and the distillation process.
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Tours of the distillation process and milling, as well as brick-oven pizza baked with flour milled on-site.
Philosophy
- Handcrafted organic spirits with a focus on ethics and sustainability throughout the process.