My City November 2022

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DREAM MACHINE CURRENTLY OFFERS SIX SMALL-BATCH SPIRITS: BTL RCKT VODKA, TWO WRIGHT’S RUM (SILVER), FLYING BAT RUM (BLACK) , SWIFTWALKER GIN (CITRUSY) , HOT ROD GIN (PEPPERY) AND AGAVE SPIRIT (AKA TEQUILA WHEN MADE IN MEXICO) .

named after the first bicycle, the Swift Walker. With the names, one objective was to make people feel something and have the potential to tell a greater story. “Dream Machine is where scientific rigor and artistic expression converge,”Matt explains. “It’s where stories and spirits are only as good as the people we share them with. We engineer small-batch spirits for spirited people.” Making craft beverages at FWB is a full-time endeav or; Matt oversees a five-member production staff. “We have an outstanding team!” Ginny exclaims, “our Dream Team.” Joe Sirl, who handles sales and marketing, took the reins opening the Cocktail Bar, including creating “‘Dream’” is the artistic expression of the distillery and ‘Machine’ is the scientific aspect of the name.” Ginny Sherrow

spirits. “It’s state-of-the-art technology,” Ginny adds. For their barrel-aging program, there are twenty 30-gallon oak barrels onsite, and each can produce up to 150 bot tles of brandy, rum, whiskey, bourbon and other spirits to be released in the coming months and years. A lot of thought and care was put into creating the Dream Machine Distillery logo and branding. “We spent a lot of time researching and educating ourselves,” Ginny says, adding that they went with a professional company to design the branding and logos. “We wanted the distill ery to have its own brand, one that really resonated with us,”Matt noted. How did Dream Machine get its name? According to Ginny, everything starts with an idea, what they call a moonshot. “Dream” is the artistic expression of the dis tillery and “Machine” is the scientific aspect of the name, she explains.The Dream Machine logo features a hot air balloon (the original “flying machine”), representing the simplest machine making the simplest spirits.They also have a logo featuring an airplane which will identify their aged spirits, and the Distillery’s Swiftwalker Gin was

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