ABOUT THE DISTILLERY
TROLLEY HOUSE
Sanitizer, Shine & Bourbon
What began as a project to start a small local micro-distillery soon grew much larger when my family and I fell in love with a historic building in our home town of Emporia, Kansas.
That building was the old Trolley House of Emporia which facilitated the town’s public transit from 1880 to 1927 and beyond. The history, size, and location of the building just lined up with our needs and with our family’s belief that everyone has a duty to support their community; and thus, Trolley House Distillery was born.
CORE PRINCIPLES
MISSION
Leave your community better than you found it.
This simple statement is the driving goal behind our efforts to be successful. Not only are we aiming to support the members of our staff and their families; we also wish to become a destination that draws people to Emporia who may not have visited otherwise.
We wish to do so in a way that does the least amount of harm to our environment as possible which means offsetting the substantial CO2 byproduct a distillery produces.
And ultimately, before Trolley House’s mission is complete, we will have established funds to give back to the community that helped us along the way.