This fellow set up a small distillery on his farm near Atchinson Kansas, and he’s making some very nice vodka, filter the bejayzus out of his Fox vodka. My local vodka drinkin’ buddies are in love with the stuff. But his bourbon-like whiskey is basically white dog aged a while in used oak barrels. I talked to him briefly about his whiskey and it seemed like he spends more time filtering the vodka than he does aging the whiskey, but it does take on some color. His family made ‘shine back in the Smokey mountains and they moved to Kansas in the 70’s. With his new distillery, he’s the first to market it legally. So there’s a family tradition of drinking it young.