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Since beginning in 2009, Spirit of Texas has won awards, including the silver award at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, for the Pecan Street Rum.[/caption]
Shaun Siems, owner of the Spirit of Texas distillery in Pflugerville, said his dream was to create top-shelf Texas whiskey, and now that dream is coming to fruition.
Siems began his distillery in 2009. The business produces two types of rum and recently began distributing its new line of whiskey. Spirit of Texas features a tasting room where visitors can buy the spirits.
Siems said he comes from a family of entrepreneurs and decided early in life that he would want to start a business of his own. At 28, Siems, an electrical engineer, and two friends were experimenting with home brewing and devised an idea for a distillery. Three years later, in 2009, their independent distillery was born with the use of a homemade, 3-gallon still. The company’s first product was named Pecan Street Rum.
Siems, now the sole owner, said the name emerged from the fact that the trio used pecans to naturally darken the rum color after practice runs proved oak wood time-intensive.
