Locals have been enjoying the spoils of Winter Park Distilling Company ‘s stills since 2010, but when their dual public house, which was also home to the Bear & Peacock Brewery, shuttered its doors on Orange Avenue, many thought that COVID-19 had knocked them out of the game.

But it was only out of their more visible location.

“We were the anchor business in that spot,” says cofounder Paul Twyford of the space just behind Foxtail Coffee’s original location, a spot The Courtesy Bar now calls home. “It didn’t make sense for us to pay for all that when we couldn’t be open, so we moved out into an ugly warehouse where we’ve toiled away, out of sight and out of mind, for the past few years.”

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