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New Columbia Distillers will start making gin later this month, which means that it will be ready for the public by August.

For John Uselton and Michael Lowe, that the Rickey became the District’s official cocktail last year is something of a nice coincidence. The two, after all, are planning on producing gin and whiskey — both of which can be used in the cocktail — once they open up their planned New Columbia Distillery this summer.