Primary testimony for the author’s experience. The claim of being West Virginia’s first legal distillery since Prohibition needs independent corroboration. Fresh full-page audit: Attributed memoir:1998 planning and1999 licensing. First-post-Prohibition claim is not independently verified; dates and costs are author testimony.
First-person startup and licensing narrative.
The author recounts planning and building a West Virginia distillery beginning in 1998, obtaining licenses in 1999, and navigating equipment, financing, regulatory, and market constraints.
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