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Article: Vodka made in Indiana?
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- Indianapolis Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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From the outside, Suite 1000 of the Uptown Office Complex looks like any of the strip-center businesses clustered between Castleton and Fishers. But behind the glass door, copper and steel teem with life as Hoosier sweet corn is heated, mixed and filtered on its way from the silo to the saloon.
The small space, with unfinished concrete walls and exposed air ducts, serves as the tasting, bottling, labeling and packaging station for Heartland Distillers' only product - Indiana Vodka.
Heartland founder Stuart Hobson lovingly heats a corn-water mash in a copper-pot still, beginning the process of converting the home-grown grain into 80-proof vodka. Since January, Heartland has turned out ...