Distilling a craft

Phillip Mundt was recently appointed as head distiller and production manager at Brush Creek Distillery in Carbon County. Mundt comes to the distillery from Colorado where he worked at Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey. Starting out as a distiller, for six years he was production manager.

Mundt grew up in Evergreen, Colorado. He studied international relations at a university in Switzerland and received his masters in management at a school in Scotland.

"All of those travels allowed me to try a lot of duty free whiskey," Mundt said. "I got to try a lot of good stuff and it made me interested in thi...