Our Name
Dog and Shrub Distillery is named after our love of dogs and cocktails.
Dog is reference to all of the long-haired dachshunds in our life including Pippin, Mabou, and Digby. Also, unaged whiskey is often referred to as white dog.
Shrub is reference to fruit based sugar/vinegar syrups used in some of our cocktails, offering a sweet/tart balance to the drink. Shrubs were used as a way of preserving fruits and vegetables prior to refrigeration and capture their essence at its peak.
Dog is reference to all of the long-haired dachshunds in our life including Pippin, Mabou, and Digby. Also, unaged whiskey is often referred to as white dog.
Shrub is reference to fruit based sugar/vinegar syrups used in some of our cocktails, offering a sweet/tart balance to the drink. Shrubs were used as a way of preserving fruits and vegetables prior to refrigeration and capture their essence at its peak.
Kim and Rob
We met while attending chemistry class at UW - River Falls. After living in Texas and New Jersey while Rob attended graduate school and post-doc'd in physical chemistry and Kim, also a chemist, worked in biotechnology start up companies- we moved back to Wisconsin. Rob recently retired from 25 years of teaching high school chemistry and physics classes and coaching rugby and Academic Decathlon. Kim currently works for a pharmaceutical analytical lab in the Madison area and enjoys cooking, gardening, and reading mystery novels in her free time. After much thought about what our next adventure in life would be, we opened the distillery in June of 2020.
Pippin
2004-2020
Mabou
Digby
