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Owner of JK Williams Distilling
A Minnesota native and a whiskey enthusiast, Andy Faris worked most of his career in the tech world. Prior to serving as President of JK Williams Distilling Andy most recently served as COO of Network Republic, a reseller of new and refurbished IT equipment. He moved to Peoria in 2019 to take on the role of President of JK Williams Distilling and has been working to restore whiskey to the “Whiskey Capital of the World” ever since.
On this episode of Barrel Room Chronicles, we discover the long lost whiskey history of Peoria, Illinois. Andy Faris and Jeff Murphy join me in a conversation about how they are working to bring back one of the cities greatest …