This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 6 On a rural two-lane road 24 miles southwest of Austin, there's a blue and white pickup truck parked in front of a large silo that sits outside a 9,000-square-foot industrial building with brown metal siding and brick flourishes. This unassuming building is the home of Desert Door Distillery . On weekend afternoons, the distillery's expansive patio is overflowing with people sipping drinks, listening to live music and enjoying bites from a food truck parked on the property that deals in meals made with wild game. How did a remote Texas distillery located in the unincorporated community of Driftwood ( population: 106) become a hot hangout? It has plenty to do with the smoky spirit that's the speciality of Desert Door Distillery: sotol, which happens to be booming in popularity right now . What is sotol, anyway? Sotol is a distilled spirit made from the … [Read more...] about Desert Door Distillery: A Texas sotol powerhouse in a town of 106