REVIEW
TIDY OPEN shelves stacked with tasteful merch greet you at the entrance to West Fork Whiskey’s new far-north outpost. A small leather-bound flask. A collapsible dog bowl. Baseball hats. Shot glasses. A “(Local) Whiskey Made Me Do It” can cooler. For $29, you can take home one of the handpoured Penn & Beech candles created specifically for the Indianapolisbased brand. Several of them flicker on the Welcome Center’s countertop, their sweet scent permeating the air, Abercrombie & Fitch–style, with warm, bourbon-adjacent notes of maple, vanilla, and toasted oak.
West Fork’s signature scent wafts over the lobby’s gift shop and carryout bottle bar, infuses
