Our Story

Our states-of-the-art equipment and technology help us produce high-quality products to serve you in the market and in The Barrel (Our Tasting Room at Shankar Distillers).

Starting out in our Dry Hammer Mill, fresh, high-quality grains are milled to flour on-site and auger-delivered to our 1,500-gallon mash tun.

Once the mashing process is complete, the mash is transferred to one of our three 1,500-gallon fermenters for the fermenting process. After fermentation, the mash is sent to our 45-foot continuous distillation column (You can see it from I-75 highway) for its first distillation.

The first distillation, commonly called the stripping distillation, removes alcohol from fermentation from the grain in the mash. The distillate, or low-wines, are then distilled on our 250-gallon hybrid pot-still for whiskey or is distilled using the pot-still with two 28-foot columns to produce vodka.

Our vodka is also used to make our gin by a combination of soaking botanicals in our pot-still and distilling our vodka through a gin basket. When distilling gin, our vodka starting material is distilled with our gin basket activated. The gin basket holds botanicals and allows distillate vapor to pass through and infuse the alcohol with flavors from the botanicals.

Each product (whiskey, vodka, gin) is distilled differently by utilizing distillation cuts. Heads cuts are removed first containing small chain alcohols with undesirable flavor, followed by the hearts cut which contains the bulk of the alcohol used for the final product, and ending with the tails cut to remove large chain alcohols with undesirable flavor.