![]() The best parts have been having our head distiller, Grant McCracken, on the team producing amazing product, indulging in the space with our team, and most importantly seeing the enjoyment our customers get out of the distillery. The first two were difficult, but finding our head distiller was fortunately the easy part. The challenges to setting up the first distillery were changing the laws, finding the right location, and finding the right distiller. Fortunately, we won the law battle and we are growing faster than ever before today, but unfortunately the co founder relationship was painfully lost during the battle. TP: The two biggest obstacles were having to change Tennessee state laws in order to be able to distill, which took 2 years of fighting/lobbying, along with managing a co founder relationship throughout the ebbs and flows of starting a business. What have been the main challenges involved in setting up a new distillery? And what has been the part you’ve enjoyed most? The vision was to be the first distillery back in Chattanooga in 100 years, only produce a high quality aged whiskey (bourbon whiskey), and be a staple in the Chattanooga community. TP: A friend of mine and I had the idea to start Chattanooga Whiskey back in 2011, and then immediately launched a Facebook page without a plan, which received a lot of attention quickly. Please tell me how the distillery came about? What was your vision. We’ve been married for 12 years have two daughters, 5 and 3. Graduated from Auburn where I met my wife, and we moved back to downtown Chattanooga to start our lives back in 2005. TP: I was born and raised in Chattanooga, TN. We spoke to the CEO and Founder Tim Piersant about the whisky making experience. Each tour concludes with a full tasting of Chattanooga Whiskey and locally-produced Dr. It’s a place to showcase the craft process and the whiskey tradition we come from, while also allowing us to get creative with techniques and showcase our current product. It’s part experiment and innovation lab, part museum and all good. It’s here that casks of different ages blend together until ready for the Anniversary Blend bottling.Opened in Spring of 2015, the Chattanooga Whiskey Experimental Distillery is making the first legal whiskey distilled in Chattanooga in over 100 years. ![]() “The flavor profile boasts of notes of root beer float, black cherry, toasted oak and toffee bar, with hints of cedar and sweet smoke.”Īfter three to four years of primary and secondary aging, casks of the original “1816” recipe (the third mash bill featured in the blend – known as 1816RES) are transferred into Chattanooga Whiskey’s 650 gallon charred oak 1816 Barrel. ![]() “The combination of traditional and innovative mash bills showcases the unique influence and balance between the three whiskeys,” said Grant McCracken, Chattanooga’s head distiller. ![]() The Founder’s 10th Anniversary Blend is made up of three whiskey recipes distilled in both Chattanooga, Tennessee and Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and includes two Tennessee High Malt mash bills, known as Smoked and SB091. While eventually succeeded by Chattanooga’s own signature Barrel 91 recipe, the whiskey’s impact wasn’t forgotten. In the spring of 2012, Chattanooga Whiskey began blending and bottling 1816, a whiskey that Piersant explained “helped overturn century old distilling laws.” “We are not only celebrating 10 years of Chattanooga Whiskey,” Piersant said in a prepared statement, “but also celebrating the blending of the past, present, and future of Chattanooga Whiskey.” This whiskey, formulated by Chattanooga’s Founder and CEO Tim Piersant, marks a major milestone for the company. Chattanooga Whiskey 10th Anniversary BlendĬhattanooga Whiskey 10th Anniversary Blend recently announced the release of its Founder’s 10th Anniversary Blend.
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