The neat thing is that they're doing something interesting in Ivy City, which not so long ago was rock bottom on the DC scale, which is off-the-scale bad by anyone else's. Ivy City was originally a neighborhood that catered to railroad workers, as the rail yards are directly across New York Avenue. It became heavily African-American because the railroads hired lots of black men as laborers and black women as maids and cooks during the great days of passenger rail. When those jobs largely disappeared, Ivy City crashed hard. That was compounded when New York Avenue was turned into a restricted access commuter sewer. The neighborhood became almost unlivable except for the real down-and-outers.
Almost overnight, Ivy City has acquired new condos, an organic grocery, a fish market, a new bike shop, and a women's something or other that I didn't pay much attention to when I last prowled through to see what was happening. Now comes a distillery. These gals are featuring a tasting room and tours, which means they're hoping to cater to a local crowd. A few blocks beyond next door, but still pretty close, I have an acquaintance who hopes very soon to open a microbrewery and tasting room in Langdon, which is across the railroad tracks to the northeast and is another forgotten neighborhood (though it never did the full crash and burn like Ivy City). It's gentrifying now.
I retired from drinking 25 years ago and am not going to start again now just to celebrate an interesting new business in a part of town that is coming back to life. But it's a very interesting location decision. The odds are against any new business, but I wish them success. I'm really curious about where their customers might come from.
Raised in DC from 1950 onward and having watched the destruction of the black lower middle class and their businesses by Ems-Liberals-Progressives- Commies.I don’t give a rat’s rump in wishing these white privileged hard core lesbians success.
Go read their page to understand fully the depth of their far left politics, their crowd sourcing funding, Emily’s List support, etc. Every damn item on the distillery page is political.
Do some 30 second research before you throw your support the makers of Rodham Rye...Notice that their first distilled product was a Vodka called Civic, easiest and quickest spirits to get to market. Best markup as well.