From Afghanistan to Colorado Springs, the evolution of a veteran's moonshine distillery

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From Afghanistan to Colorado Springs, the evolution of a veteran's moonshine distillery
 By: Seth Boster   March 17, 2017

At his Army base in the Afghanistan desert, Mike Girard would feel the rumble from rockets and hear the pop-pop-pop of gunfire, and the thought constantly lingered in his mind that it could be his time, like it was his commander's time during a close encounter with a suicide bomber, or like it was years prior for his good pal Mike, who had died before Christmas, or like it was for Matt and Jason, who had died a week apart. Girard had to find peace somehow. He did in the secrecy of a locked room.

There he kept a pressure cooker, the kind that insurgents would pack with explosives and hide under the dirt, leaving Girard and his fellow explosive ordnance disposal technicians to ever-so-carefully pull out. He'd done that for two prior deployments in the Middle East. In 2012, during the last mission of his 23-year military career before his return to retire in Colorado Springs, Girard used the cooker to discover a new passion:

He crafted his first batch of moonshine.

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Just in case anyone is interested, this appears to be their website:

http://www.3hundreddays.com

Looks like it is being sold mainly in Colorado.

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Just in case anyone is interested, this appears to be their website:

http://www.3hundreddays.com

Looks like it is being sold mainly in Colorado.

There are a number of very good distilleries in Colorado, including several in Colorado Springs.  No idea how long some of them will last, but they make some pretty good hooch!