Chattanooga Whiskey - Downtown Experimental Distillery Chattanooga Whiskey Company History Founded in 2011 with the goal of bringing whiskey distillation back to Hamilton County Tennessee, Chattanooga Whiskey Company started with sourced whiskey from Lawrenceburg Distillers of Indiana (LDI, now Midwest Grain Products or commonly "MGP" ) and became a grassroots spark point a year later under Tim Piersant and Joe Ledbetter with the "Vote Whiskey" movement. Their efforts bore fruit in May of 2013 when Tennessee House Bill 102, “The Whiskey Bill”, passed with 57 House members in favor and 31 opposed. Governor Bill Haslam signs the bill into law on May 16, 2013, making it legal to distill whiskey in all wet Tennessee counites. In 2015, Chattanooga Whiskey opened their currently functioning experimental location in the hip and happening part of downtown Chattanooga. The facility also hosts a generously sized tasting bar, basement barrel aging facility, and a small ba...