‘Crowd-funded’ distillery hosting fundraiser at Parrish on ‘Repeal Day.’
Atlanta native Jeff Moore is welcoming guests and supporters of his Kickstarter-funded Old Fourth Ward Distillery to Parrish Foods & Goods from 4PM – 7PM tonight to celebrate “Repeal Day” (Anniversary of the end of Prohibition), and hopefully raise some additional cash for project.
“It gives me a chance to interact with our supporters personally,” Moore told What Now Atlanta in an interview Wednesday.
Moore, along with co-owners brother Craig and friends Gabe Pilato, Justin Gray and Andy Duvall, have managed to raise over $22,000 for what would be Atlanta’s first distillery since 1906, according to the project’s Facebook event page.
The team of five have been pursuing starting the Atlanta based distillery since New Years Eve 2011.
“My brother and I love difficult barriers to entry. There is a reason nobody has created a distillery in Atlanta since 1906.”
In August, Moore and his team received federal permission to distill spirits in August.
“[At our parties], we weren’t content with buying off the shelf beer, so we had friends who made home-brew. We took the concept to spirits and found out very quickly that it was extremely illegal and no-one was doing it.”
At completion, the distillery plans to manufacture Vodka, Gin, Whiskey and Bourbon.
“For us, the most important thing is the liquid in the bottle. I can spend an hour talking about the still alone. It will be a work of art, the absolute best spirit you could imagine. We want to make spirits savvy enough to be ordered by anyone”
At peak capacity, the craft distillery will be able to produce 1,000 bottles of Vodka every 20-25 days in its 450-gallon custom made German still.
“There is a lot of intricacy in this project; a more expensive endeavor than we had ever imagined. We want to step that game up and offer a wider range of spirits that come from Georgia. We want to stick to where we live. Like Sweetwater, they’ve done it in Atlanta and been extremely successful. That’s our model.”
The craft distillery hopes to launch in the Spring of 2014 at 487 Edgewood Avenue, according to Moore.
Interested in “backing” the project? There are nine days left in the Kickstarter campaign.
