River Roots Barrel Co. rolling out the Bourbon barrels in Cleveland

River Roots Barrel Co. is open with a unique business plan: It sources Kentucky Bourbon, offering personalized bottle selections based on customers’ tastes, and soon will begin distilling its own.

River Roots Barrel Co. opened in September.Marc Bona, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A taste of Kentucky is now getting a touch of Northeast Ohio.

Four Greater Cleveland business folks – Ryan Lintz, Tom Gray, Michael Boland and restaurateur Michael Symon – are rolling out the barrels at River Roots Barrel Co., a Cleveland-based distillery and barrel house that personalizes bottles for its customers. It opened in September with a barrel room and tasting room covering less than 5,000 square feet on the city’s west side.

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