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Alex Munroe is the owner of Cape Fear Distillery in southeastern North Carolina. Cape Fear Distillery's spirits have won numerous international and national awards for taste and design. The distillery property is on 14 acres and has lodging, an award-winning restaurant, day spa, art gallery, gift shop and 4000 sq ft event center.

Royall has spent 30 years in the finance and consulting industry prior to co-founding Deep Creek Distilling nearly 7 years ago.  He is a member of the Virginia Distillers Association and is an industry advocate.  Royall has a true passion for his craft and is eager to share his knowledge with the next generation of distillers.

Co-owner of Doc Howard's Distillery in Perry Ohio.  In a short period of ownership, he has been able to double sales and and continue deliver quality spirits to Northeast Ohio.  Having a moonshine background and passion for delivering smooth superior whiskey, gives Tony a strong sense of spirits.

Founding partner in Crux Distillery, retired Firefighter/Paramedic and United States Marine. We created Southern Cross Bourbon to pay honor to the Marines of WWII to present day.

Rob learned from the founder of Doc Howard's how to produce great American whiskey and now is co-owner of the distillery.  Producing small batch spirits and keeping to the original taste profiles that people expect.  He has developed a passion for whiskey and searching out unique flavor profiles.

Manya K. Rubinstein (she/her) is the CEO of the Industrious Spirit Company (ISCO), Providence Rhode Island's first distillery since Prohibition. ISCO produces sustainably sourced vodka, gins, bourbons and experimental spirits such as Ostreida, the first ever vodka distilled with oysters! 

Distilling was always pulling at Brian from the edges. He studied Computer Science in college and went on to found a software consulting company, but his high school chemistry teacher Mrs. Richardson left him with a real appreciation for the subject — especially the lab experiments. After graduating, he began home brewing, moonlighting as a bartender at private parties, and started collecting spirits from around the world. In 2019, Brian’s lifelong best friend Dr. Thomas Soltau opened Sugarfield Spirits, after many years of sharing and sipping spirits together. Brian jumped at the opportunity to learn about the business, and began apprenticing with Thomas. Additional study led to an unshakeable passion for distilling and the creation of 30A Distilling Co in Santa Rosa Beach, FL..

Collin Moore is a licensed professional engineer and craft whiskey enthusiast. Collin has a BS in Civil Engineering from Montana State University, an MS in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois, and has studied distillation with the Institute of Brewing and Distilling, Siebel Institute of Technology, Moonshine University, and the American Distilling Institute. The son of a musician/artist and a chemical engineer who taught distillation methods at the University of Tennessee for half a century, Collin grew up with an appreciation of perfecting one’s creative skills and techniques and a passion for science and scientific experimentation. Collin founded Judson & Moore Distillery with his wife and father-in-law and is the head distiller and production manager of the growing company.

20 years in Finance and Human Resources

Part owner of Deep Roots Distillery USA and Flavoring wizard in charge of coming up with some of our unique flavor profiles using as many local ingredients as we can to support other small businesses and farms in our area