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Our Federal DSP has been approved!
Here’s a very exciting update! Our Federal Distilled Spirits Plant application has been approved. This is the single largest hurdle in getting underway in the spirits industry.
Putting this in perspective, you can’t apply for this permit until you have a facility leased or purchased, and all your major equipment is already in place. It involves some extensive financial documentation, the purchasing of a Surety Bond, along with descriptions of security, plant premises, operations, and individual applications for each owner (fortunately we only have one). I put in the application on June 7th, and it was approved on August 30th. So it’s quite a relief to have that behind us.
We’re not through the red-tape forest just yet. The next steps are the North Carolina ABC Distiller’s Permit along with our Federal Label approval. When both of those are complete, we’ll be able to actually begin production and start working with the ABC to get our products stocked.
If you’d like to look at our label concepts, you can check them out here. We’ve been working with designer Meghan O’Brien, a graduate of the NCSU College of Design. She’s also the artist behind our logo and the woodblock prints and t-shirt that you can get through our Founder’s Club.
We’ve also had some recent attention from the press, with a couple articles in the Durham News Bulletin, the Triangle Business Journal, as well as the Independent Weekly. I’m holding off on my media blitz until I have an actual product to back up the hype, but it’s great to see such a strong local interest in what we’re doing.