Glassroom Q & A

“Here at Copperworks, we try to be as transparent as possible. We publish every recipe for every batch on our website. We feel that if folks want to copy us, they best do it right.”

“In the town Galena, the former #1 tourist attraction used to be the post-Civil War home of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, soon to be U.S. President, but since the founding of the Blaum Bros Distillery, the distillery has usurped the former General’s home for that top spot.”

“It all started during a family dinner with a joking statement of “lets make our own whisky.” With a shared love for good whisky and fascination to see how things are made, we decided to explore the idea.”

“The different grains, the different types of smoke, the different mashbills. It is like the music of the 60s and how they changed the way we listen to music, the same is happening now in whiskey.”

“Our most immediately identifying uniqueness is that our Great-Grandfather was one of the first to produce Tennessee whiskey”

“There is so much history that we reincorporated into the distillery, such as using the original limestone well and producing the original Pepper mash bill that was last produced in 1967 when the plant shut down.”

“A guy came up to me with a Glencairn glass full of FEW Rye whiskey and told me he hadn’t spoken his father in 30 years, but they meet in Paris and rekindled their relationship over a bottle of FEW whiskey”

“We see beauty in the process as much or more than the end product.
The product is simply a validation of the process and place.”