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As Drink Up Week continues, we’re mixing things up with someone who knows how to really get in the spirit. Steve Revare is the co-founder of Tom's Town Distilling Co. Steve founded the business with David Epstein, who he’s known since they were both in kindergarten. Their first beverage business was a lemonade stand. As they grew up, so did their beverage choice.
To celebrate #DrinkUpKC, he joined us to answer nine questions about Tom’s Town and… well, liquor.
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Owners of Tom's Town Distilling Co. Steve + David. | Photo by Tom's Town Distilling Co. |
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🥃 What inspired you + David to open Tom’s Town?
We were inspired to start Tom’s Town with the fact that Kansas City had this great history of Prohibition and being the Paris of the Plains. We felt like the history was not being told widely enough and thought the best way to tell the story would be through liquor. 🥃 If Kansas City was a drink, what would it be? I’d probably say an old fashioned because it was a drink that was before Prohibition, but it lasted through Prohibition and is still popular + a cocktail that everybody enjoys. 🥃 Patrick Mahomes comes in and asks for a recommendation. What do you say?
Well, if he comes in, we’ll definitely do a flight and make him try all the spirits that we make. If he wants a cocktail instead, I’d suggest either the Drowned Rabbit or the Tom Pendergast. 🥃 Could you share a bit about your distilling process?
So we basically make two gins, one vodka, and two bourbons. We actually have a third gin that's out right now called Garden Party Gin. It's a small release that we're just going to do seasonally and is made with botanicals from Powell Gardens.
For our gin, we take a wheat neutral spirit and put it in the still. We have 14 botanicals in our gin, so it's an American gin rather than a London dry, and we crank up the still. The alcohol turns to vapor and basically runs through the gin basket where we have other botanicals, and it picks up those flavors as it goes through that basket. So, we have sort of both maturation, which is what soaks in the spirit, and then we have vapor distilled botanicals as well. Those combine to create the distinctive flavor of our gin.
Our vodka is made a little differently. We still use a wheat neutral spirit, but we add rye from my wife's family farm outside of Lee's Summit. We make like a rye low wine and distill that at the same time as wheat. It goes through our vodka column, which is the really tall equipment that goes through the ceiling in our room, and is distilled 17 times. |
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