Celebrating a Decade of Wyoming Whiskey in Jackson Hole
Kate and Brad Mead on their Wyoming Ranch with two of their dogs. Photos by Kevin Gibson
Posted a story at FredMinnick.com about my recent trip to Wyoming and the distillers and brand I was there to cover.
Kate and Brad Mead told the story of how they launched their Wyoming Whiskey distillery to a group of visitors on a blustery day on their Mead Ranch – rolling fields stretched into a backdrop of nearby Grand Teton mountains.
The horses in a nearby fenced-off area seemed to be listening in, while the couple’s three dogs, including Sophie, the adorable but skittish cattle dog, who tried not to stray too far from Kate. Everything in sight, from the family home to nearby barns, peek out from a layer of fresh mountain snow.
The distillery, at one point, was nearly to become a winery, but the couple were intrigued with the bourbon industry. It helped that at the time there weren’t other whiskey distilleries in Wyoming.
“We did not originally set out to start a whiskey company,” Kate says. “But we did.”
