Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey distillers in the US, Stranahan's is said to have "kicked off the Colorado distilling craze" with its whiskey and the designation it invented, Rocky Mountain Whiskey. It was Colorado's first microdistillery, and the state's first legal distillery since Prohibition. The first batch of Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey was distilled in 2004 and bottled in 2006. Stranahan's was sold to New Jersey-based Proximo Spirits in 2010, with operations remaining in Colorado. By 2012, Proximo had increased whiskey production from around 12 barrels per week to 30, with plans to grow into the high forties. Stranahan's was sold in 38 states and 7
George Washington's Rye Whiskey Senator Adam Ebbin (D-30th) designating George Washington’s Rye Whiskey as the official state spirit of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 60 percent rye, 35 percent corn and five percent malted barley. The staff uses Washington’s original mash bill and 18th-century methods. The grain is processed in Washington’s water-powered gristmill, fermented in wooden mash tubs and distilled in copper pot stills heated by wood fires. In Washington’s time whiskey was not aged but this recipe calls for it to be distilled twice. George Washington's Rye Whiskey George Washington’s Rye Whiskey is distilled at George Washington’s reconstructed distillery at Mount Vernon from a