5/21/2023 0 Comments Brenda novak home to whiskey creek"Alcohol burns and it's an old wood building." Eventually, he located an existing distillery in Culpeper that was for sale. After leasing a rather forlorn 53,000-square-foot apple cold-storage warehouse in Sperryville, he was unable to find a company that would insure the building. "It was like walking into a hornet's nest," says Wasmund. His zoning application, to convert an old mill in Delaplane into a distillery, was turned down by the Fauquier County Planning Commission, citing, among other things, traffic concerns. "I wanted to make the only applewood-aged whiskey in the world."īut Wasmund soon discovered that there is more to the spirits business than whipping up a fermented mash of grains and sticking a name on the bottle. He calls it Copper Fox."When I turned 40, I decided that I wanted to make something that no one else was making," says the soft-spoken Wasmund between puffs on a cigar. Last month he started selling his own whiskey. Three years ago, Rick Wasmund, a financial planner from Middleburg, Va., decided to make an unusual career change. Interesting idea, haven't tried it yet but it's for sale in the State stores here.
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