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HISTORY IN THE MAKING

Camden Ford and Aaron Barnes founded Timber Creek Distillery in 2014 with the goal of taking locally grown grains and fruits and making interesting and authentic local spirits. The distillery is on a Family Farm just east of Crestview, Florida and includes 212 acres of Sand Pines, 100 year old Live Oak trees, and thousands of blueberry and blackberry bushes as well as a local dear, turkey, quail and the occasional rattlesnake. We buy all of our fruits, grains, and molasses from the Florida Panhandle with the exception of Barley.....it just doesn’t grow this far south. When we designed our distillery, we modeled it after a traditional Scotch distillery, after all, the Scotch have been distilling whiskey longer than anyone, so we figured they knew a thing or two about distillery design. We have quite a large range of products including Rums, Vodkas, Whiskeys, and Gins as well as some fruit Brandies. Everything is made local in our distillery in Crestview. We take great pride in milling, mashing, lautering, fermenting, and distilling each batch ourselves as well as hand bottling and labeling every bottle.

YOUR HOST, CAMDEN FORD

Cam spent most of his career in Silicon Valley working for tech start-ups and large tech companies including HP, Brocade, Intel, and Seagate. When Silicon Valley became too hectic, Cam and his fam moved back to Destin, Florida to enjoy the slower pace of the beautiful Florida Panhandle. His dream had always been to start his own company, and after several years of research and lots of glasses of whiskey, he saw the growing trend of Craft Distilleries and decided to follow the adage, "If you love what you do, you won’t work a day in your life".

After starting a little backyard Moonshine operation to see if he really could distill, he needed a taste tester. Who better than his WFH next-door neighbor? Every day, Cam would surprise his neighbor with another mason jar of "samples" to get feedback. After a knock on the front door by some pesky agents from the Florida Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco, he thought it might be time to get "legal" and go do this thing full time. Three months later, Timber Creek Distillery was up and running making whiskey.