Leading up to the election,
Republic Restoratives owners
Pia Carusone and
Rachel Gardner wanted to create a product that would celebrate who they thought would be the first female president. Plus, it seemed fitting:
Hillary Clinton has been known to throw back the
occasional whiskey. So, they came up with the idea for Rodham Rye, which would launch around the inauguration.
No need to tell you what happened next.
Carusone, who previously worked for congresswoman
Gabby Giffords,
was in Arizona campaigning for Clinton right up to election night. The
next day, she and Gardner agreed to put the rye whiskey on hold, not
sure exactly what to do with it.
But after a period of
self-described mourning, the distillers returned to Rodham Rye and
decided to continue with it anyway. Carusone says the spirit isn’t
ultimately just about Clinton. “It’s a tribute to women in history, and a
tribute to women in our everyday lives,” she says.
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