4th Annual Stills in the Hills
By David Josselyn
On a partly cloudy Saturday with temps in the seventies and indecisive weather such as found in Colorado like an ADHD child, twenty-six distilleries, twelve vendors, and two bands culminated on Main Street Central City for the Fourth Annual Stills in the Hills event. Hundreds of people filed up and down the business hub of the City enjoying music, food, spirits, and each other’s company. Festivals celebrating the craft distilling of fine spirits are a growing phenomenon in Colorado, but you have to look carefully to find them; often not advertised widely, they are found more from word of mouth. Humans have been finding ways to ferment fruits and grains since the beginning of time for both the benefit and detriment of mankind. In this country, legal commercial distilling took off after prohibition ended in 1933. Even then, distillers did not stray too far from the familiar gin, vodka, whiskey, rum, and tequila. Sure, companies offered variants of all plus others, but Americans stuck to what they knew.
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