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• History of distillery
  • Opened in 2015 in the upstairs of big wood pizza in Nashville Indiana
  • 2107 began construction  on current distillery CAMPUS
    • 325 acres with a touring and tasting room and restaurant 
    • 2018 sweet mash distillery officially opens
    • The property has a live music stage, hosts festivals, food trucks and a bar, all called “Hard truth on the Rocks”
  • Hard Truth Distilling Co. is part of the BWQOHT, Inc. family of brands, which also includes Big Woods Restaurants and Quaff ON! Brewing Co.
• Brewers start
  • Tim O’bryan  started brewing beer, the family really liked it
  • His father in law, Jeff McCabe, and Ed ryan went in as partner and they opened a brew pub
    • Big Woods Brewing opens in 2009 
  • 2012 opens Quaff ON! Brewing corp..  It was an old bowling alley
  • Jim Dunbar joins as a fourth partner
• Hard truth starts
  • 2015 they start distilling upstairs at big woods
  • When it took off at the restaurant they decided we arent going slow like they did for the brewery
    • The brewery changed locations and grew slowly.  They would max out capacity and then keep moving up.  This was slow moving
    • For distilling they bought the distillery land and planned to grow into it
  • 2017 brought in Bryan Smith as 5th partner, and the master distiller.
• Hard truth campus
  • 2018 campus opens. It's a disneyland for adults
  • You can take ATV Tours of the campus
• 2020 challenge 
  • 2020 pushed back the plans, but they leaned into the challenge and released new products and added new locations
• Sour mash vs sweet mash
  • Very basically, Sour mash, think sour bread.  You use mash from the previous set to “start” your next set.
  • Sweet Mash has no starter.  Every batch is its own batch, with nothing added to adjust the PH (which is the purpose of the starter in sour mash)
  • Sweet mash is harder but more controllable because you start fresh every time, but you run the risk of bacteria.
  • Sour mash is easier and safer, because it corrects the PH to help drive out bacteria.
• Sources
  • https://hardtruth.com/our-story/ 
  • https://www.abvnetwork.com/whiskey-corner/2019/2/25/whats-the-deal-with-sour-mash-vs-sweet-mash 
  • https://alchemistcabinet.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/sweet-mash-vs-sour-mash/ 
  • https://www.jconline.com/story/life/2022/03/18/hard-truth-distillery-gin-vodka-rum-whiskey/7047278001/ 

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