If you’ve never toured a whiskey distillery, the experience can be uncommonly old-fashioned. For example, you can’t visit Redemption Whiskey’s distillery, because there isn’t one; the brand sources all its stock from MGP Ingredients in Indiana. Contract distilling happens when whiskey is distilled to order for a client’s specifications. Mandell is a veteran of Bardstown Bourbon Company, a well regarded operation he helped to launch in 2014. These contract distilling services are where the fast money is made.