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Guidant Client Makes the News! Guidant Client Don Poffenroth of Dry Fly Distillery

Friday

No strangers to media attention, Guidant 401k small business financing client Poffenroth and his business partner first made the news a couple years ago when they started Dry Fly Distillery, the first distillery in (our home) Washington State since prohibition.

Media buzz aside; Dry Fly Distillery had a very unique concept: a distillery, with little-to-no employees, that would produce whisky, gin and vodka (to start) with the help of volunteers. Two years later, Dry Fly has customers lining up around the block to purchase their second release of their award-winning Whisky.

According to local television station KLXY 4, Dry Fly’s first whisky release of 300 bottles sold out in just 90 minutes. The current release, of 160 cases, is expected to sell out quickly as well – although not as fast “because of the cold,” Poffenroth told the station (and we agree with him – it is COLD!)

It’s wonderful to hear about Dry Fly’s success; and, even more so when we can visit (and hope for some free samples). In fact, Guidant cofounder David Nilssen was able to visit Dry Fly recently and check out their operations. To read more about Dry Fly and their unique business model, check out our success stories blog.

The next release of their whisky should yield 900 cases. We just hope that they intend to keep a bottle or two for themselves – we believe this level of success is cause for celebration – cheers!