Resorting the FAMILY BUSINESS

Tucked away in the hills of southwest Ohio, just one turnoff from the rural highway, sits one of the last intact agricultural farm complexes in the United States, with a history steeped in American whiskey and a fascinating family legacy.

The farm is the birthplace of a family whose story begins in 1818, a farm where once the grain had come by the wagonful, where whiskey freely flowed, the creek’s pure water rushed by, and the smokestacks puffed aplenty. It sat silently waiting until, in 2010, Missy and Joe Duer decided to revive the former’s family distillery and become the next generation of pioneer distillers.

But before we can go forward, we must travel back. In the early 1800s, three brothers with