This South Broadway Distillery Was Six Years in the Making | Eater Denver

"Set in the 125-year-old Imperial Building, this new distillery pub is the result of six years and roughly $1 million of remodeling by owner Ron Tarver, who lowered one floor by two feet to create a neighborhood-feeling tasting room where patrons can drink beside a 150-gallon handmade still. Together with carpenter and head distiller Chad Peters, the operation features a basement laboratory with four open-air cypress fermenters and starts with locally malted grains that Peters takes through the full distillation process; he debuts two rums, a series of flavored liqueurs including a 73-proof Kaladi coffee spirit infused with cinnamon, pink peppercorn, chocolate, and honey, and a white “sweet-feed shine” whiskey that adds oats and molasses to the grain profile, with a buttery-smooth bourbon planned by 2019. The bar sells its own spirits alongside other Colorado liquors and beers and Tip Top Savory Pies for snacking, and its interior weaves found relics into the design—framed old newspaper clippings in the hallway and excavated bones and lithium bottles in bathroom display cases—while a newly built water-recapturing system saves about 700 gallons daily; Tarver is also exploring rose quartz in the column and environmentally friendly packaging, noting much of it is “for the millennials.”" - Josie Sexton