Explore some of the trail's distilleries:
10th Mountain Whiskey and Spirit Co.
10th Mountain Whiskey & Spirit Company is a privately owned, award-winning, philanthropic craft distillery located in Vail Valley, Colorado. We were awarded the Craft Distillery of the Year Award in 2021. We make 7 different spirits at our distillery which is open for tours Thursday-Sunday. We have a tasting room at our distillery and another one in Vail Village, at the base of Vail Ski Mountain, that is open 7 days a week. Come join us for a cocktail and learn about the distilling process and the history of our namesake, named after the 10th Mountain Army Division.
Marble Distilling Co
Spirits with a Conscience!
A Craft Distillery and Boutique Luxury Inn in the heart of the Colorado Rockies built on a model of Sustainability, founded by a badass female Distiller.
Marble Distilling Co. & The Distillery Inn is a wife-and-husband run and owned craft spirits distillery, tasting room and luxury inn. A 2nd Tasting Room, Marble Bar Aspen, is located in downtown Aspen, Co. MDC is the only distillery in the world to use the world-famous marble stone as a filtering agent. The Distillery Inn is the first and only inn in the world to be housed within an operational distillery; guests can “sleep with the stills.” The Distillery Inn offers luxury accommodation, with five sophisticated, contemporary rooms.
291 Colorado Whiskey
291 Colorado Whiskey is a globally-acclaimed, small-batch whiskey distillery nestled in the shadow of Pikes Peak. A uniquely American story honoring the Western whiskey of a bygone era, 291 is the passion project of a former New York City fashion photographer and was first created in a small basement from a one-of-a-kind still constructed from old copper photographic plates. From grain to barrel to bottle, 291 Colorado Whiskey is Hardmade the Colorado Way® since its first run of the still in 2011. Named 2022 Icons of Whiskey American Craft Producer of the Year, World’s Best Wheat Whiskey- 2021 and World’s Best Rye Whiskey – 2018, and Best American New Make in 2022, 2021 and 2020 by the World Whiskies Awards.
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Ballmer Peak Distillery
After a spirited conversation in 2014, surrounded by the crisp mountain air of Denver, Colorado, lifelong friends Austin Adamson and Eric Strom had their first whiskey fueled conversation which led to the founding of Ballmer Peak Distillery which opened five years later in November of 2019. A sustainability driven, pandemic-survived, nano-distillery with a cozy tasting room nestled against Green Mountain in Lakewood, Colorado, Ballmer Peak Distillery offers a unique lineup of small batch spirits and cocktails with globally inspired flavors, and seasonal micro-batch experiments. Eric and Austin hope to motivate, inspire and fuel the passions and creativity of others by sharing their delicious, quality creations with their community and the world.
Golden Moon Distillery
Golden Moon Distillery is an award-winning artisan distillery producing a variety of spirits, including Colorado (American) Single Malt Whiskies, other whiskies, gins, absinthes, brandies, liquors and liqueurs.
Every single malt product (all single malt whiskies and our mugi-shochu) we produce has taken Gold or Double Gold Medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
We were named the Distillery of the Year in 2019 by ADI.
Recently we received Honorable Mention (first runner up) for Distiller of the Year 2021 by the World Gin Awards.
We also operate Golden Moon Speakeasy, an award-winning cocktail lounge that was named Gin Bar of the Year for 2021 by the World Gin Awards.
Golden Moon Distillery was founded in 2008.
