Journeyman Distillery: growing organically

Take a look at the paperwork involved, and you know it’s not a small thing to be certified organic these days. Little by little, farmers are taking the steps to grow and raise products without synthetic fertilizers, artificial pesticides, growth hormones, feed additives or genetically modified organisms (GMO’s). When you’re a distillery and you’re shopping around for grain that is certified organic, the search takes a little doing.

But that’s okay by the folks at Journeyman Distillery.

Based in quaint Three Oaks, Journeyman uses 1,300 pounds of grain a day, and that will increase significantly with the addition of their new still, which should be up and running by the end of summer. With a cost difference of nearly three times as much to use organic ingredients — there’d better be a good reason.

“First, it means we’re usually working with smaller or family-owned farms. Founder, Bill Welter’s family are farmers in Central Indiana and we currently have 80 acres of their family farm that

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