ONE FINE NIGHT
Bently Heritage Estate Distillery is easily the most ambitious start-up distillery in the United States, in my opinion, but if you were driving down Main Street in Minden, Nevada, you might blink and miss it. The Mill Building, with a few modern touches to the understated renovation, could pass by like other grain elevators dotting the American West.
If the traffic light at Buckeye Road were green, you would have to pay attention to catch a glimpse of the Creamery Building, a block away. With its original signage reading “Minden Butter Mfg Co. Inc,” it looks like little more than a nicely maintained, nondescript brick building from the pioneer era. The facade gives little indication of the impressive distillery inside.
Bently Heritage is a sustainable farm, LEED-certified historic renovation, composting facility, cattle ranch, 10,000-ton malting operation and two (not one)
