WATCH THIS: See how potato vodka is made at the Grand Teton Distillery

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DRIGGS – Good ideas often come at the most unexpected times, and in Lea and Bill Beckett’s case, it happened over a glass of vodka.

It was 2010, and the Driggs couple had been sitting on a 4-acre parcel of land off Idaho Highway 33 that they’d bought three years before. They’d originally planned to build a hotel, but the recession brought that to a halt.

The ground lay fallow for several years when a stroke of genius hit them on their front porch one night.

Grand Teton Distillery opened two years later and has turned out to be a profitable venture.

Today, it produces between 60,000 and 70,000 bottles of vodka every year for bars and liquor stores throughout Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. There’s also a storefront where customers can buy vodka in person.

The distillery uses about 200,000 pounds of Idaho potatoes to produce several kinds of vodka and a malt whiskey from Idaho-malted barley. It also makes bourbon, corn whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. See how the process works in the video above.

[kipschwinger]

Was just up in Driggs/Victor for a week and a half. Brought some GT Vodka back to Oklahoma with me!

[PapaKryptoss]

Yall have a lot of potatoes up in Idaho. I used to be an alcoholic

[haunted]

In simple terms....
How many times is it distilled? And how many times is it filtered?
Just curious 🙂

[MamaPinks]

Ooooo, that Huckleberry vodka sounds delish! 😋