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How Two Merchant Mariners Built KO A Virginia Distillery
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We sit down with the founders of KO Distilling to trace how a Ravens game conversation turned into a Virginia craft distillery with serious bourbon and cask strength rye. We get candid about equipment upgrades, control-state distribution, barrel strategy, and why barrel picks with a cigar club can become a real community engine.
• the origin story from Merchant Marine Academy to a third career in distilling
• learning licensing, regulation, and taxes while building a distillery from scratch
• hiring a head distiller with chemical engineering and distilling science training
•…
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