Around guests at the Kansas City distillery and cocktail bar he co-founded with his wife, Jeff Evans was an entertainer. He believed in Mean Mule Distilling Company so much that he once stood on the street corner during a slow First Friday evening hawking the bar’s margaritas to passersby, remembered his wife, Meg Evans.
Behind the scenes, he was a go-getter who wouldn’t shy away from a problem. Like when the bar’s plumbing clogged, and the crawl space in the basement overflowed.
“He put on a suit and these boots and goes down there to figure it out and fix it,” said Meg. “No one else was going to do that, you know what I mean? We were going to call someone, and he was like, ‘No, I can figure it out.’”…