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The County's First-Documented Modern Distillery — Indiana Whiskey, Named Without a Crown

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The banked article prints Ironhand Vineyard at pointer and expressly crowns no first; this section names the county's first-documented modern distillery — with the discipline the phrase requires, because no carrier reached crowns anything. The Indiana Whiskey Company, 1115 West Sample Street, South Bend: founded by Charles Florance, Notre Dame MBA of 2013 — the idea in 2011, production and sales begun in 2013 — veteran-owned, distilling in St. Joseph County at fifteen to twenty thousand bottles a year on the magazine record. It is the earliest modern distillery in the county that this section could document, and it is printed in exactly those words: first-documented at the strength reached,, from the carriers opened. No carrier reached calls it the county's first, and this article does not upgrade documentation into a crown. On the wine side the paired entry stands as banked and as uncrowned: Ironhand Vineyard of South Bend, planted in 2008 on some four acres in sixty-six rows, on the Tribune record of 15 June 2026 — the county's documented modern vines, with no carrier calling them its first either. Lakeville's own line in both classes remains the banked negative: no distillery, no vineyard, no permittee of either kind in the town, at the strengths the leg has reached.

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Source: The County's First-Documented Modern Distillery — Indiana Whiskey, Named Without a Crown, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/wineries-distilleries/county-s-first-documented-modern-distillery-indiana-whiskey-named/