Leopold Bros.

Leopold Bros.
Private
Industry Distilled beverages
Founded Ann Arbor, Michigan (1999)
Headquarters Denver, Colorado
Key people
 Scott Leopold, Todd Leopold
Products Gin
Vodka
Absinthe
Fernet
Whiskey
Liqueurs
Website

Leopold Bros. is a family-owned and operated distillery located in Denver, Colorado. They are well known as an independent distillery that floor malts, mills, mashes, and ferments all the grains in their spirits, as well as distills, ages, and bottles their entire portfolio at their one and only distillery in northeast Denver. They currently have the largest traditional floor malting room of any distillery in the United States, where they malt Colorado barley onsite. For more information on floor malting, see malt house.

History

Brothers Scott and Todd Leopold, distant relatives of environmentalist Aldo Leopold, from Littleton, Colorado, opened a brewpub on South Main Street at the site of a renovated brake factory in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1999. Later, operations expanded to include a micro-distillery. Todd Leopold, brew- and still-master for the brewery, after graduating from the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago, he interned in four German breweries, and went to distilling school in Lexington, Kentucky. Scott Leopold, an environmental engineer, was crucial in the design stages attempting to create as near a zero-pollution factory as possible.[1] The microbrewery operated as an "eco-brewery" using organic hops and barley, and used equipment and procedures designed to reduce wastewater and other waste by-products in the beer-making process.[2][3]

Leopold Bros. closed its Ann Arbor location in the Spring of 2008, relocating to Denver, where it discontinued brewing and began operating as a micro-distillery alone.[4][5] To keep up with exploding demand, Leopold Bros. opened a new facility with triple the production capacity of their previous facility, which also includes the only malting floor at a distillery outside of Scotland. [6]

Products and awards

Leopold Bros distills over twenty hand-numbered, small batch products, all made from scratch and natural ingredients, which are distributed in twelve states, the District of Columbia, and parts of Europe. Among the distinctive methods used by Leopold Bros. is the separate distillation of each botanical used in flavoring its products prior to blending and final distillation.[7] Many have won awards in international competitions[8][9][10][11] They received 'Distillery of the Year' award from the American Distilling Institute in 2015.

Spirits

Whiskies

Liqueurs

See also

Peach Street Distillers

References

External links

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