Thornton Distilling
CHICAGO -- Ghosts, gangsters and a 160-year-old well: They're all part of the story behind a distillerty in the south suburbs. The founders of say it opened in Illinois' oldest standing brewery just months before COVID.So now they are finally getting people talking about their drinks. CBS 2's Jim Williams got a look under the distillery to see the history down below. There's more than one kind of spirit at .
He made his popular beer there for many decades using that limestone filtered water. 'It is exceptionally good brewing water. It's limestone filtered, which means that it adds important minerals to the water that are good for yeast health as well as takes out certain chemicals that would be detrimental,' said Ari Klafter. According to their research, the founders say when prohibition hit someone else took over.
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