Long Road Distillery Offers Kit as a Part of Museum Exhibit “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition”

During the Prohibition Era, people illegally made alcohol from their bathtubs. To show this part of American history, Long Road Distillery in Grand Rapids, Mich., is partnering with Grand Rapid Public Museum.

The distillery, which recently opened on Grand Rapids West Side, will release a “bathtub gin kit” to coincide the opening of the

Long Road Distillery owners Jon O’Conno and Kyle Van Strien.

museum’s “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” exhibit. The kit comes with Long Road vodka, botanicals for infusing, straining cloth, funnel, instructions and a commemorative bottle with a specially designed label.
Even when the customers purchase the kit, they will not be able to make the alcohol because it remains illegal to make it at home. Long Road features the first four legal stills ever in the city of Grand Rapids. The kit is designed to enhance the flavor of the vodka, the kit is designed to invoke the spirit of the 1920s when Americans used ingenuity to make their own alcoholic beverages, a trait in common with modern craft distilleries and breweries. The kit is priced at $49.99 and for sale at the distillery, 537 Leonard St. NW with $5 from each kit sold donated to the museum to support the exhibit, which opens Sept. 26.

American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Grand Rapids Public Museum
272 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Open through January 17, 2016