This weekend, the Traverse City Whiskey Company (TC Whiskey) will mark a major milestone towards the completion of their new development in Elmwood Township. The company’s president, Chris Frederickson, said they recently finished erecting a 20,000-squarefoot warehouse at 9440 S. Center Highway.
TC Whiskey has already received a certificate of occupancy for the warehouse from Leelanau County. Frederickson said that it’s a tradition in Kentucky for distilleries to celebrate “barrel no. 1,” so the company plans to hold a small gathering this weekend where company staff and friends in the industry watch as they roll their first barrel into the warehouse.
While the completion of the warehouse marks a big step in that direction, Frederickson said that this distillery will likely not be open to the public by the end of the year as they had originally planned.
