They might be new to the Indy region but soon, Hard Truth Distilling Co., a southern Indiana spirits company will be taking to Mass Ave. at Bottleworks. If you want a preview of their taste, flavors and staff you’re in luck – tomorrow, July 15th, you can join in the fun at Camp IndyHub’s Raise the Bar with Hard Truth Distilling Co.!
And if you still want to learn more, let us introduce you to just some of their team members below. We sat down with Ian McCabe, Experience Director, and Taylor Jacks, Corporate Mixologist, for a quick Q&A. Take a read!
The IndyHub team is so excited for Hard Truth Distilling Co.’s presence at the Bottleworks Garage. What’s the most exciting part about your team making its Indy debut?
The most exciting part of joining the downtown scene is getting to see Hard Truth Distilling continue to join and come up against the larger Craft Spirits and Cocktails market in Indiana. We’ve been able to see such success in Nashville with Indianapolis tourists, so getting to bring it home to them is a wonderful opportunity for us.
Since Hard Truth Distilling Co. is a new name for many Indy residents, can you give us a little background about the origin of the company? Where’s home for the brand?
Hard Truth Distilling Co. got our start in 2015 crafting spirits on an open-flame-heated micro-still above the Big Woods Pizza restaurant in downtown Nashville, IN. Our expanded distilling facility on the 325-acre Hard Truth Hills campus is now our home. On the new property, you can experience a wide variety of touring, dining, and drinking opportunities. You can find Hard Truth Hills just outside downtown Nashville, IN. Check out the website (www.hardtruthhills.com) for more information!
20-and 30-somethings are all about our city’s texture a.k.a – nightlife and culture, so what can they expect their first time visiting Hard Truth Distilling Co. in Bottleworks? (Any potential menu items you’d like to share?)
We love our party-ers AND our quiet nights with a glass of whiskey, and the Hard Truth Bar at Bottleworks is going to be the perfect place for both. We’re bringing in Barrel-Aged Cocktails made with Hard Truth’s Whiskeys and Gin, a couple Big Woods standards that our guests have loved and requested for years, as well as a new craft cocktail menu built to make the Hard Truth go down easy!
Working so closely with all of the other craft purveyors at Bottleworks will give us the chance to use amazing local ingredients, and create the next evolution in Hoosier Craft.
So we know we have to wait for the Bottleworks Garage debut but tell us how Indy residents can get their hands on some HTD Co. spirits?
Right now we encourage friends to experience Hard Truth Distilling Co.’s delicious liquids by the following:
- First and foremost you can join us for Camp IndyHub’s Raise the Bar on July 15th! Reserve your Cherry Juice cocktail kit online and pay at pickup.
- The Full Hard Truth Kit ($30) includes a 50ml bottle of Hard Truth Cinnamon Vodka, a 50ml bottle of Hard Truth Toasted Coconut Rum, a 4-piece Mason Jar cocktailing kit (including jar-shaker-strainer, bar spoon, jigger, and muddler) along with your cocktail mixers. The Mini-Kit ($15) Includes a 50ml bottle of Hard Truth Cinnamon Vodka, a 50ml bottle of Hard Truth Toasted Coconut Rum along with your cocktail ingredients.
- After reserving your kit, you can come down to the Hard Truth Hills Tours and Tasting Center in Nashville, Indiana any time before 7/15 and pick it up. Our address is 418 Old State Rd 46, Nashville, IN 47448 and we’re open from 11:30am-6pm Sunday-Thursday, 11:30am-8pm Friday & Saturday.
Not interested in purchasing the kit? That works too, you can just RSVP here to receive a list of ingredients to purchase prior to the mixology class and get to know us.
We’d also love to stay connected with you online, you can check out our Hard Truth Hills Blog (https://www.hardtruthhills.com/blog/) for cocktail recipes updated twice a month.
-OR- And this is our favorite, we’d love to see you so visit Hard Truth Hills in Nashville, IN for one of our signature Mixology Classes where you get to learn the art and craft of cocktailing in person.
You heard it here first friends, join us on July 15th to meet the team before they become residents at Mass Ave’s Bottleworks.
