{"id":4486,"date":"2012-03-07T15:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2012-03-07T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T22:31:41","slug":"iowa-nama-meeting-features-guest-speaker-ryan-burchett-of-mississippi-river-distilling-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=4486","title":{"rendered":"Iowa NAMA Meeting features guest speaker Ryan Burchett of Mississippi River Distilling Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/iowanama1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4509\" title=\"iowanama1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/iowanama1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>The February Iowa NAMA meeting was held February 24, with guest Ryan Burchett of Mississippi River Distilling Company speaking to the group about his start-up business in LeClaire, Iowa. \u00c2\u00a0Ryan and his brother Garrett decided to take a chance on a dream and start Mississippi River Distilling Company in 2010. \u00c2\u00a0Since opening, they have been featured on FoxNews.com and named &#8220;Best of What&#8217;s New&#8221; by Midwest Living Magazine. \u00c2\u00a0Ryan explained how they got started and established themselves as a &#8220;local&#8221; company \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with everything from their building to their t-shirts and especially their ingredients coming from local resources. \u00c2\u00a0All of the grain for their distillery comes from local farmers, and everything is done under one roof, from raw grain to bottling and hand-marking each bottle. \u00c2\u00a0Ryan also discussed their sales and marketing tactics with the group, describing how their Facebook presence and word of mouth have been their main tools since opening. \u00c2\u00a0Iowa NAMA members greatly appreciated Ryan taking the time to talk about his local family business; to learn more, please visit the Mississippi River Distilling Company website at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrdistilling.com\/\">www.mrdistilling.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February Iowa NAMA meeting was held February 24, with guest Ryan Burchett of Mississippi River Distilling Company speaking to the group about his start-up business in LeClaire, Iowa. \u00c2\u00a0Ryan and his brother Garrett decided to take a chance on a dream and start Mississippi River Distilling Company in 2010. \u00c2\u00a0Since opening, they have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}