Take a tour of Storm King Distilling in Montrose, Colorado, and you’ll see many of the usual production staples—a 1,000-liter still, stainless tanks for mashing and fermentation, and bottles and labels ready to finish products for distribution.
Finally, along the eastern wall of the facility, there’s a striking wooden vessel that holds the distillery’s flagship product: a blended whiskey called Side Gig.
This is no ordinary foeder—or, at least, it doesn’t look like one. The egg-shaped vessel stands seven feet tall—or a bit more than two meters—and it’s five feet wide at its broadest point, near the bottom. And, because it’s technically a horizontal foeder, it protrudes only two-and-a-half feet out from the wall. Looking at it head on, it appears almost two-dimensional.