Tim Piersant, owner and co-founder of Tennessee Stillhouse, stands with full barrels of 1816 Chattanooga Whiskey at the companies new location set to open next week on Market Street.The Chattanooga Whiskey Co. now produces one barrel a week at its Tennessee Stillhouse micro-distillery on Market Street across from the landmark Choo Choo hotel.
Come the middle of next year, the homegrown distillery will be able to ramp up production by a factor of 100 – to 14 barrels a day – at a new, 46,000-square-foot facilty under construction inside the former Newton Chevrolet building at the corner of M.L. King Boulevard and Riverfront Parkway.
And instead of relying on whiskey made at a distillery in Lawrenceburg, Ind., to fill its bottles, the Chattanooga Whiskey Co. will have the capacity to turn out more than 100,000 cases a year of bourbon.
And it will be made from a mix of corn and other grains that the company has experimented with at its micro-distillery, which opened in March 2015.
“We’ll have 100-plus recipes to choose from,” Head Distiller Grant McCracken said Tuesday during a ceremony at the new distillery site.