Getting your player ready...
Plans for a new Basalt business are putting people in high spirits.
Two Woody Creek business partners intend to convert space vacated by a Basalt furniture store into a distillery and start producing vodka, gin, whiskey and bourbon by next spring.
Mark Kleckner, a partner and master distiller of the new business, said the potatoes for vodka will be grown at the Woody Creek ranch of his partner, Mary Scanlan.
The grains needed for other spirits will come from the Roaring Fork Valley, whenever possible. They are working out agreements with local farmers for the grain. If all the specialty grain cannot be grown in the valley, they will be able to find it elsewhere in Colorado.
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