Formula No. 44
Batch #4, Bottle #877
In 2010, when Jeff Lindauer and Russ Wall first began scheming to turn Lindauer’s Buckhorn Canyon water into craft spirits, they consulted with a private-label distilling company to come up with the formula and recipes. And by random chance, they worked with Rob Masters, who soon left that group to launch his own gin brand, Rob’s Mountain Gin, in Boulder.

Now, though, as Spring44 gets ready to open a distillery in Loveland, the company has acquired Masters’s brand — and Masters himself will take over as the Chief Ethanol Savant, or head distiller.

“It’s exciting,” says Masters of his move. “I developed the formulas awhile ago, and when they were going to open the distillery in Loveland, I was hired as a consultant to get it up and running, but I was still keeping my own brand. But it just came to fruition, and I realized Spring44 was where I needed to be for awhile