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George Stranahan

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Pete Macca, Stranahan's new general manager, on the changing of the guard

    ​Late last year Proximo Spirits, distributors of 1800 Tequila, Kraken Rum, Three Olives Vodka, Hangar One and other labels, purchased Denver's homegrown brand, Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey. Once the sale was complete, original owners Jess Graber and George Stranahan moved on; head distiller Ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Why did Jake Norris leave Stranahan's? Ask the bartender...

    Flickr photoJack Norris at the Stranahan's distillery.​Jake Norris, head distiller and an original partner, left Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey last month. The brand was purchased late last year by Proximo Spirits, distributor of big brands like 1800 Tequila, Kraken Rum and Three Olives Vodka; a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Is Stranahan's the punk rock of whiskey? Ask the bartender...

    ​Growing up in New Jersey, I was a punk-rock kid. I started with Iggy and the Stooges, the Ramones and the Clash, and moved on to Bad Brains, Fear, the Misfits, early Bad Religion, then into NY hardcore, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, etc. As the '80s progressed, so did my punk-rock fervor. I re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey will vastly expand production later this year

    ​When Jess Graber and George Stranahan founded Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey back in 2004, it was a micro-distillery crafting a very small run of the spirit culled entirely from Rocky Mountain barley and local water. But Stranahan's has grown, and grown fast. Two years ago, it relocated from th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Change at Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey will come slowly

    ​Not much is going to change at Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey now that the distillery has been purchased by New Jersey's Proximo Spirits -- at least not for a while. "What is interesting is that Stranahan's is selling so well in Colorado that we are going to focus 99 percent of our efforts the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey has been sold to an East Coast liquor distributor

    ​Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey is not longer a Colorado-owned company. Jess Graber, who co-founded the microdistillery with Aspen businessman George Stranahan in 2004, acknowledged today that New York-based Proximo Spirits has purchased Stranahan's. He provided no other details. "Proximo Dist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    NYC's Proximo Spirits plans to buy Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey, keep things the same

    ​Proximo Spirits, a New York-based liquor distributor that made a name for itself by buying or investing in such niche brands as Kettle 1 vodka, Kraken Black Spiced Rum and 1800 Tequila, is in the process of buying Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey. An executive with Proximo, who spoke on the cond ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Flying Dog Brewery taps back into Denver

    Jim Caruso and George Stranahan.​ It took a few laps around the block and a sprint through the rain to find the Flying Dog Brewing Company's new Denver tap room, at 2330 Broadway, but it was worth the hunt. The tiny but brightly-painted space (it's on the east side of an apartment/office bui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Flying Dog Brewery returns to Denver to open new tasting room tonight

    ​I'm going to give Flying Dog Brewery another try - tonight. Although I wasn't a big fan of their beers when the brewery was based in Denver - and even less so after they scampered off to Maryland for bigger digs - Flying Dog is opening a new tasting room today at 2330 Broadway where craft be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Stranahan's whiskey: Things I'm gonna miss...

    ​When I arrived in Colorado seven-and-a-half years ago, there was no Stranahan's, no Colorado whiskey to speak of, and no war in my soul over what to order when I pulled up before the long oak with a taste for whiskey and some time to kill. I was a Jameson drinker then, tips to toes. Still ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    The Rackhouse Pub to open in former Heavenly Daze

    Denver will get a new tap house later this summer when Eric Warner opens the Rackhouse Pub in the building recently purchased by Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey. Warner, the former head of Flying Dog Brewery (which moved from Denver to Maryland in 2008), says the place will have fifty beer handles in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Stranahan's leaves LoDo for old Heavenly Daze Brewery

    Stranahan's has become Colorado's best-known distilled spirit - a favorite of locals and national whiskey connoisseurs alike. And now the micro-distillery will be able to meet that demand, even if it means leaving the neighborhood where it was born. On May 6, the company bought the old Heavenly Da ... More >>

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    May 13, 2004

    Consumed

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