Location: Likely Roseville (TBD) īackground: Bartley Blume, a home-brewer and former aerospace engineer, quit his desk job to do what he loves. The moonshine is named for the type of corn used to make it, and the first crop is harvested and now drying. Egbert and McManus also will make Minnesota 13 whiskey, based on moonshine that kept parts of the state fed during Prohibition. The name of the distillery is a nod to its location - apparently, there are 11 wells beneath the site that supplied Hamm’s. The pair are busy gutting the old blacksmith and pipe shop at the Hamm’s Brewery site on the East Side and hope to begin distilling in a few months. He has a degree in microbiology and an interest in the history of distilling in Minnesota that borders on obsession. The men merged visions and teamed up to create 11 Wells.Įgbert is an avid mixologist who has his own line of bitters, tinctures and cocktail salts called Dashfire. Paul īackground: When partners Lee Egbert and Bob McManus met, each was already planning to start a distillery. ![]() Master distiller Brett Grinager worked with a master distiller at Maker’s Mark before coming to Panther.ĭetails: 704 E. His distillery is ahead of the game it has nearly 800 barrels of whiskey and bourbon aging. Spirits: White Water (unaged) whiskey, apple liqueur, gin, eventually aged whiskey and bourbonīackground: Colorado businessman Adrian Panther started the first distillery in the state last year after noticing the lack of craft spirits in Minnesota, despite a booming industry elsewhere in the country.
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