Branch & Barrel Distilling

About Us

Branch & Barrel began with three friends, a dream, and a small residential hot water heater. When owners Scott, Ryan, and Tom met through their day jobs, they bonded over the idea of creating a project that would produce high quality authentic Colorado craft spirits. They didn’t have a still, a facility, barrels, or a recipe, but what they did have was good old American ingenuity. Through skills acquired from time in plumbing and construction, the team put their heads together and got to work. They ran various recipes through their little water heater still until they produced something they considered “drinkable,” then aged the spirit in mason jars with charred tree trimmings from their own backyards. Because our first “barrels” were branches, it only made sense to adopt the moniker as a company name. Seven years later, Branch & Barrel Distilling produces a variety of award-winning whiskies, unique barrel finishes, and experimental spirits, still using handbuilt equipment to this day.