According to one article, this strategy of producing a blended whiskey was born out of necessity to keep a positive cash flow for the distillery, since aging their own whiskey would mean years of losses without any income that the Perkins were unable to cover themselves.
High West Spirits does have a 250 gallon pot still and a production facility, but the majority of its products are blended whiskey that use product from multiple other distilleries (primarily MGP in Indiana) and packages the blend under their own label.
David and Jane decided to open their own distillery and start producing whiskey back in their Utah hometown, and in 2006 they opened their doors for the first time. An experienced biochemist, David was visiting the Maker’s Mark distillery and was intrigued by how alcohol production relied on intricate interactions between organic compounds and microscopic creatures to create the spirits that we all enjoy. That all changed in 2001, when David Perkins and his wife Jane decided to bring whiskey production back to Utah. And Utah remained largely void of distilleries for a long time after. And since the 1833 Word of Wisdom specifically forbid alcohol consumption, it follows that Utah’s laws aren’t most pro-alcohol… but that didn’t necessarily stop it from happening.Īccording to Mark Twain’s accounts of Salt Lake City in 1851, there was already an established whiskey being manufactured and consumed by Mormons within the state referred to as “Valley Tan.” Up until 1870, a number of distilleries were operating within the state, but by the end of the year they had all been shuttered. Starting in 1847, the state was colonized by Brigham Young and his followers of the Mormon religion and the laws of the church have since largely formed the laws of the state. Utah is a strange place to start a distillery.
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