January 2025
Building
You’ve seen a lot of concrete floors in your life, but look at OURS! Yesterday, Phillips Concrete poured and finished the floor. It has concrete blankets on it now – next week blankets will come off and forms will be stripped. Then, framing the walls can start.
Locals, you’ve likely noticed the patches of new siding that Derek has been putting up. He removed a window we won’t need and soon he’ll be putting in two doors along the Virginia St. side (one for the public, one for employees).
When we open, we’ll serve the public at a walk-up window and in a small walk-in space (no seating to start). This allows us to sell our spirits, cocktails, mocktails, and merchandise. Once we’re up and going, we will expand to a small tasting room (the corner of Virginia and N. Idaho) which will have tables and a small bar to sit at. We’ve been hard at work with the floorplan of this two-phase build out. It has been tricky to squeeze everything we need in such a small space, but it is coming together.
Business / Community
Tomorrow, we will be helping out at the Dillon Rink Day and 2nd Annual Rink Plink. There will be team curling, open skating, hopefully some pick up hockey (afternoon weather dependent), and our favorite event: the Rink Plink. Modeled on a biathlon, but instead of skiing you skate laps, and instead of shooting a .22, you shoot a bb gun (you don’t skate with it – it’s tethered at the start/end line). With an evening raffle and silent auction at Beaverhead Brewing, it’s a great day of fundraising for the Dillon Ice Corral. Kudos to all the volunteers of the Dillon Amateur Hockey Association and Tweedy Mountain Fun Club who have put the event together.
Distillery
This month, we’ve been testing the carbonation setup for our small batch ginger beer. Made with a couple pounds of fresh ginger root, it packs a spicy punch. We will have it on tap at the distillery as a non-alcoholic drink (of course, you can add vodka and make it a Mule!).
Speaking of menus, we have been drafting both our alcoholic and non-alcoholic options. We’re trying to keep drinks simple to start (ex. ginger beer or mule, lime rickey or gin rickey). Dreaming up recipes for our alcoholic slushies, which will rotate seasonally, has been a nice chance to think ahead to warmer weather fun.
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