In January, we paid a visit to the New Columbia Distillery, a then empty warehouse in Ivy City that will soon become the city’s first distillery in over five decades. And after months of building out their space and receiving the necessary permits to start distilling, the City Paper reports that co-owners Michael Lowe and his son-in-law John Uselton will start producing gin later this month, meaning it will be available to the public by August:

The first creation from New Columbia founders Michael Lowe and his son-in-law John Uselton will be called Green Hat Gin. The name comes from Prohibition-era bootlegger George Cassiday, who supplied members of Congress with illegal liquor between 1920 and 1930. Cassiday set up shop in the basement of the Senate’s Cannon Building and later the Russell Building. He wore a green fedora and became know as “The Man in the Green Hat.”

Cassiday was arrested in 1930 after a Senate employee set him up during a delivery of six bottles of gin to the Senators’ parking lot. After spending 18 months in prison, Cassiday wrote a series of stories in the Washington Post under the pen name “Man in the Green Hat” describing his bootlegging escapades in Congress. According to a bio on the Senate’s website, Cassiday went on to work for the CIA after the repeal of Prohibition.

Lowe and Uselton also plan on eventually producing whiskey, but they told me that it’ll take between two and three before it’s available for public consumption.