Frey Ranch

In 2006 the Freys got a federal experimental distilling licence.^1,2,3 They made brandy and very small amounts of whiskey on a homemade 25-gallon pot still, but could not sell a drop.^3,7,14 In 2013 they helped get Nevada's first craft distilling laws passed.⁶ In July 2013 they received Nevada's first craft distillery licence.¹⁵ That year they broke ground on a distillery, and Colby Frey helped design the custom still it ordered from Vendome Copper & Brass Works.^7,12,16

The distillery opened in 2014 with a 500-gallon pot still, a 24-foot continuous still and four 5,000-gallon fermenters.^8,10,12 In 2015 the ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Douglass-Frey Ranch.¹⁷ Its first whiskey, a 5-year-old bottled-in-bond straight bourbon, came out on 11 December 2019.^3,9,10 In 2020 it planned to phase out the wine, vodka, gin and absinthe it had sold while its whiskey aged.^3,16,18 That year it added a second continuous still and doubled the size of its pot still.^12,18

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