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Growing with Dry Fly Distilling

From small-batch repairs to floor-to-ceiling fermenters: a decade-long partnership that scaled with every pour.
When Dry Fly Distilling outgrew their original facility, they brought Spokane Stainless Technologies with them to the new space. SST delivered a full equipment suite engineered for both sanitary production and customer-visible installation, supporting a 12x increase in production volume.
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Project Overview

Client Name: Dry Fly Distilling

Industry: Food and Beverage / Craft Distilling and Canned Cocktails

Location: Spokane, Washington

Project Scope: Design and fabricate a full equipment suite for a new production facility, including fermenters, mash tanks, dewatering and proofing tanks, feed lines, process piping with sanitary welds, and valves, while supporting facility layout design and a customer-visible installation.

Solution Provided: Spokane Stainless Technologies engineered and delivered polished stainless vessels built floor-to-ceiling tall for street-side window visibility, with sanitary-grade welds throughout, a custom restaurant kitchen backsplash, and an ongoing service relationship with response times measured in days.

The Challenge

Dry Fly Distilling opened in 2007 as Washington State’s first post-Prohibition distillery. Their canned cocktail line drove rapid growth, eventually pushing production beyond what the original facility could support. Years of repair work on aging tanks had become unsustainable, and replicating those limitations at a larger scale was not an option. When Dry Fly moved, they needed equipment built for where the company was going.

The Solution

SST worked with Dry Fly from planning through commissioning, with the project scope expanding to cover fermenters, mash tanks, dewatering and proofing tanks, feed lines, process piping with sanitary welds, valves, and layout design support. The tanks were built floor-to-ceiling tall for street-side window visibility, so restaurant guests could watch production in process. Installation required closing two lanes of traffic and cutting a hole in the building’s roof to lower them into place.

The Results

Since commissioning the new equipment, Dry Fly Distilling has achieved:

  • 12x production volume increase over original facility capacity
  • Equipment in operation quickly, supporting an aggressive expansion timeline
  • Polished stainless construction meeting both sanitary and customer-facing requirements
  • Ongoing service relationship with response times measured in days, including repair of equipment built by other vendors
  • Canned cocktails now account for roughly half of company revenue, supported by the new production platform

The partnership extended beyond equipment. During COVID, when Dry Fly pivoted to producing hand sanitizer for the Spokane community, SST built them a mixer and gifted it to the distillery to support the effort.

“Anytime we have a problem, it’s really easy to get a hold of them. We have peace of mind knowing that Spokane Stainless is around the corner.”
— Matt Beaty, Production Manager, Dry Fly Distilling

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