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Carrie and Andrew Cole opened Take Flight Spirits in 2022 and have already released small-batch rum, gin and whiskey. Sample a flight in the Skokie tasting room or order a cocktail featuring house liqueurs and syrups.
Take Flight Spirits Takes Flight
When Take Flight Spirits opened in August in downtown Skokie, Illinois, owners Andrew and Carrie Cole had two main goals: They wanted to work together and to lift the spirits of the area. They are accomplishing both.
Craft Distillery and Tasting Room Lifting The Spirits of Visitors
Take Flight Spirits is a new craft distillery and tasting room in downtown Skokie with a goal to lift its visitors spirits. Joining us now with more is owner Carrie Cole.
"Take Flight Spirits" a destination worth the trip to Skokie
Today, Frank and I did our October taping of the tv show for Comcast, "Keeping You In Da Loop", and rather than the studio or a local restaurant, we went to Skokie and it's new offering, Take Plight Spirits. Part of the mystique of this new establishment is meeting the owners, Carrie and Andre Cole.
A brewpub, but make it liquor: Take Flight Spirits lifts off in Skokie
Brewpubs have become cornerstones of the nation's vast beer landscape, places where the beer made on site is largely, if not entirely, consumed in the same place it's made. Unlike production breweries, the model is not about getting onto store shelves or on tap at bars - it's about cultivating unique experiences.
Planned Craft Distillery In Skokie Receives $99,250 Village Grant
The Wilmette couple behind Take Flight Spirits hope to open a tasting room in September inside what used to be Marge's Flower Shop.
With help from village grant, couple plans to open craft distillery in downtown Skokie
Opening a small batch distillery in Skokie during the COVID-19 pandemic has in some ways been a challenge for Carrie and Andrew Cole.