MOONSHINING IN COLORADO

The 3 Hundred Days of Shine tasting room resembles a roadhouse speakeasy; a non-working Thompson submachine gun hangs above the mirror-backed bar, and a small 1940s-era still sits higher above that. Faded newspaper articles cover the walls of the distillery with stories written about several gangsters famously known for illegal moonshining in Colorado.

The Carlino brothers out of Pueblo and Joe Roma of Denver, waged war for the control of Colorado’s illicit liquor trade in the early 1930s. We tip our hats and pay homage to the history of Colorado moonshining by hand crafting our unique spirits, referred to throughout the prohibition as “sugar moon,” in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.