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Caldwell and his production staff take great pride in their work and the business’ connection to its southern and American heritage. can be as small as 75 gallons and as large as 1,000 gallons. Caldwell built his first still while he was a work control manager at Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Generating Station, eventually taking early retirement to operate Confederate Stills full-time. “Things started taking off while I was still there,” he said. “I posted a photo of my first still on the Internet, and within a week, I got a call from a guy in Colorado wanting to buy it. It got much, much bigger than I ever thought it would be, and I realized that I couldn’t continue to do both. So I went home and had one of those long, heartfelt prayers, asking ‘Do I do this, or not?’ When I went back in, I resigned and took on this challenge.” It’s one that has paid off for him, and, he believes, for his customers. “What comes out of a small craft distillery is so much better than mass-produced whiskey.” Now, his stills produce liquor at distilleries from New York to California. He sees them as meeting a need in the market that opened up in the wake of the craft brewery boom that began a few years ago. Between 2012 and 2014, as many as 425 new distillery licenses were issued across the country. “By that time,” Caldwell said, “I’d already decided I was going to build a still. If you know anything about nuclear power and people who work in that field, you know that they’re real 30 | <strong>Lakeside</strong> Living & Logan Martin Homes | December 2016
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