Glacier Distilling Co. keeping spirits up this winter
Head distiller Jake Allen mixes a batch of jalepeno, garlic and black peppercorn whiskey to get it to proof at Glacier Distilling Company on Tuesday, Jan. 9. Allen has been with the company since its beginning, he was one of the raft guides that helped it take root. “If Jake were gone, I would have no idea what’s in any of these barrels,” Owner Nic Lee laughed. (Avery Howe photo)
Glacier Distilling Company in Coram on Tuesday, Jan. 9. (Avery Howe photo)
Nic Lee, Owner of Glacier Distilling Company, poses in the store room on Tuesday, Jan. 9. Lee estimated there were a couple hundred barrels in this storage space alone, which the company will pull from to use in their spirits. (Avery Howe photo)
Flathead cherries are hand-pressed at Glacier Distilling Company on Tuesday, Jan. 9. (Avery Howe photo)
Manager Jessica Sorenson takes a moment from serving a customer to flash a smile at Glacier Distilling Company on Tuesday, Jan. 9. (Avery Howe photo)
“It was originally something to prepare for the apocalypse,” Glacier Distilling Company Owner and Founder Nic Lee said. “We were just going to stockpile on spirits and whiskey and share it around locally.”
Now, Glacier Distilling Co has developed from a whiskey-fueled dream, thought up by a group of raft guides bumming around in the winter months at a North Fork cabin, into one of the flagship Montana micro distilleries, tucked to the side of Highway 2 in Coram.
Despite its tourist-heavy summer audience, Glacier Distilling Co has made it a mission to reach out to locals in the off-season and give them a place to come, learn, drink, create and build community.
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