The first time Paul Werni booked a booth at Distill America in 2009, all he had available to sample from his 45th Parallel Distillery was vodka.
“It was in a small room at the old Edgewater (Hotel), and there were maybe 15 or 16 tables,” Werni said.
Many of these domestic distillers were big national brands, he recalled. A few smaller vendors came mostly from Michigan, New York and California…