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Cooperstown Distillery Set To Open Store In Saratoga

Cooperstown Distillery Set To Open Store In Saratoga The Cooperstown Distillery is about to open a store in the heart of vibrant Saratoga Springs – 453 Broadway – Proprietor Gene Marra said this morning, with a “soft opening” perhaps as soon as the end of this week.  “It’s a dream come true,” said Marra.   Visitors from Otsego County will find a locale quite similar to the distillery’s Beverage Exchange at Main and Pioneer streets in downtown Cooperstown, he said.  Along…

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Expanded Cooperstown Distillery Setting Sights on ‘Legacy’ Level

Expanded Cooperstown Distillery Setting Sights on ‘Legacy’ Level By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN –The rickhouse, where fine whiskey is aged, is bright, high-ceilinged, and there’s 7,000 square feet of it. And the 550 barrels of aged whiskey it stores today – en route to 1,500 – will allow Cooperstown Distillery’s brands to compete with the best whiskeys in the world, proprietor Gene Marra will tell you. “This elevates us to the status of the Big Boys,” said…

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Cooperstown Distillery To Manufacture, Give Away Hand Sanitizer

CORONAVIRUS EDITION Cooperstown Distillery To Manufacture, Give Away Hand Sanitizer COOPERSTOWN – Gene Marra, the entrepreneurial founder of Cooperstown Distillery, has found a need and plans to fill it. Hand sanitizers. He’s ordered 200 four-ounce bottle – they arrived today – and plans to fill it with a 160-percent alcohol mixture. “Essentially vodka,” he said. On Friday, he should be distributing them at no cost and see how it goes. And the producer of Cooper’s Legacy Bourbon has come up…

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$100K Grant Spurs 2-Story Addition On Cooperstown Distillery Work To Begin This Month, Says Owner

$100K Grant Spurs 2-Story Addition On Distillery Building Work To Begin This Month, Says Owner By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Having received word of a $100,000 grant, Cooperstown Distillery President Gene Marra says construction will begin, perhaps as soon as next week, certainly this month, on a 7,500-square-foot two-story addition off the back of its Railroad Avenue plant. “These funds will accelerate the construction of a new storage facility adjacent to our existing distillery in Cooperstown,…

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Cooperstown Distillery Unveils Plan To Double Its Plant, Hired 10 More

Cooperstown Distillery Unveils Plan To Double Its Plant, Hire 10 More By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – With five years of success behind it, the Cooperstown Distillery is looking ahead and planning to more than double the size of its plant on Railroad Avenue. “We outgrew our space many years ago,” proprietor Gene Marra told the Village Board on Monday, March 25. “Our production has been limited by our physical space.” The planned 7,500-square-foot…

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