Franklin Street Dispensing Company is bringing a little more spirit to Titusville.
The company, which also runs The Titusville Mill and The Magic Bus Kitchen, will kick off it's new Titusville Distilling liquors with a day of live music, food and a mixology lessons.
The company, which also runs The Titusville Mill and The Magic Bus Kitchen, will kick off it's new Titusville Distilling liquors with a day of live music, food and a mixology lessons.
| It's a celebration more than six months in the making. Owner Joe Thompson and master distiller Jeremy Friedman first started tinkering with recipes in September. Thompson said the company had the distilling license for awhile, but it was when Friedman came on that the idea got legs. Friedman, a bio-chemist, relocated to Titusville, his wife’s hometown, decided another lifestyle was for him. “There weren't a lot of jobs in mt field that wouldn't be a commute to Erie and that wasn't the lifestyle I wanted," Friedman said. I started bartending and saw they had a distilling license without a distillery, so I started talking about learning the craft.” He and Thompson started talking possibilities and long before he presented Thompson with his first gin. |  |
"I told him the flavor profile I was really looking for and he came back with this product and asked ‘What do you think?’ And I said ‘I think you (expletive) nailed it.’ And he has just improved on it ever since,” Thompson said.
From gin, Friedman moved on to spiced rum to vodkas and a bevy of cordials. They now have a lineup of products they are ready to launch.
It may seem like a strange path for Thompson, a recovering alcoholic, to take but he is matter of fact about his role and jokes "(It's been) a sobering experience."
“We got our license about 10 months after I got sober,” said Thompson only a few days after celebrating his fourth year of sobriety.
From gin, Friedman moved on to spiced rum to vodkas and a bevy of cordials. They now have a lineup of products they are ready to launch.
It may seem like a strange path for Thompson, a recovering alcoholic, to take but he is matter of fact about his role and jokes "(It's been) a sobering experience."
“We got our license about 10 months after I got sober,” said Thompson only a few days after celebrating his fourth year of sobriety.
Though Thompson doesn’t drink, he has the vision for the flavor profiles he wants and he does test the product.
"I spit it out of course. I was in a cyclical pattern with my alcoholism. Once I broke free from it and saw a way out, a way to live, that’s when I knew I could cope with life without it. It hasn't been a problem,” he said. “I create cocktails. I taste wine. I taste spirits. It’s not triggering me to want to drink and I thank God. I don’t say this with hubris in my voice. I respect it and I don’t take it for granted.”
He and Friedman have embraced the idea of creating what they call a "product that will sell itself.” In the future they hope to be in local liquor stores and be a part of PA Libations, an organization that sells only Pennsylvania spirits, as well as offer the spirits through their ventures including the Market House Kitchen opening soon in Meadville.
But for now, customers will have to go to The Mill. “We’re in Titusville and we have a world class cocktail menu," Thompson said ready to celebrate that achievement with an open house for the community.
The Mill (221 S. Monroe Street, Titusville) will host bands on the veranda all afternoon Saturday with Thompson’s mixology workshop at 6:30 p.m. and happy hour from 8 p.m. to midnight.
"I spit it out of course. I was in a cyclical pattern with my alcoholism. Once I broke free from it and saw a way out, a way to live, that’s when I knew I could cope with life without it. It hasn't been a problem,” he said. “I create cocktails. I taste wine. I taste spirits. It’s not triggering me to want to drink and I thank God. I don’t say this with hubris in my voice. I respect it and I don’t take it for granted.”
He and Friedman have embraced the idea of creating what they call a "product that will sell itself.” In the future they hope to be in local liquor stores and be a part of PA Libations, an organization that sells only Pennsylvania spirits, as well as offer the spirits through their ventures including the Market House Kitchen opening soon in Meadville.
But for now, customers will have to go to The Mill. “We’re in Titusville and we have a world class cocktail menu," Thompson said ready to celebrate that achievement with an open house for the community.
The Mill (221 S. Monroe Street, Titusville) will host bands on the veranda all afternoon Saturday with Thompson’s mixology workshop at 6:30 p.m. and happy hour from 8 p.m. to midnight.
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