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Published: 03 Jul 2021 11:24 AM BdST
Updated: 03 Jul 2021 11:24 AM BdST Victoria Eady Butler, the master distiller, at Uncle Nearest in Shelbyville, Tenn, on June 4, 2021. Butler was named the blender of the year by Whisky Magazine. (Laura Partain/The New York Times)
In 2018, the three founders of Milam & Greene, a distillery in Blanco, Texas, made their first trip to the San Antonio Cocktail Conference, one of the state’s largest gatherings of bartenders, distillers and their legions of fans. They were excited to introduce their new whiskey, until they found their assigned table stuck in a corner, far from the action.
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Anyone who believes whiskey is a man’s drink probably hasn’t gotten out of the house in the last decade. In fact, women make up nearly 40% of whiskey consumers, according to a recent study by MRI-Simmons. And behind the scenes, women are taking on more leadership roles in the distillery than ever.
We wanted to highlight a handful of women in the whiskey industry, and that list quickly grew to 22. This is only the tip of the iceberg. To keep it manageable, we decided to limit the list to those working in the United States and those working in distilling and/or ownership roles. Each week this month, we also will take a deeper dive with some of the women here, so stay tuned.
Good Vodka is distilled using coffee fruit that might otherwise be discarded or converted to fertilizer. Photo by Tristan Willey, courtesy of Good Vodka.
New York State-based startup Good Liquorworks is the latest beverage industry player to transform the byproduct of coffee fruit into a new product altogether.
The startup has just launched its flagship Good Vodka, a clear spirit made from alcohol derived from sugars in coffee cherry, the fruity layer around the coffee bean that is often discarded or turned into fertilizer during the post-harvest phase of coffee production where coffee is grown and milled.
Good Liquorworks Co-Founders Tristan Willey and Mark Byrne met roughly a decade ago as distillers at Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn, New York. From there, Byrne moved on to become an editor at GQ Magazine and then worked as a consultant on brand development projects in the liquor industry, while Willey’s path led to the opening and operation of cocktail bars.