The gleaming stainless steel cooker and fermentation tanks, the copper-topped still, the metal-strapped oak barrels and the stout bottles all stand ready. Once the plumbing mechanics for the steam boiler are completed, the Port Chilkoot Distillery will begin to turn its first batch of grain and water into whiskey.
“We’re really close,” co-owner Heather Shade said.
For more than a year, Shade and her husband and fellow owner Sean Copeland have labored at turning the…
