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Located in Evanston, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), FEW Spirits is a grain-to-glass whiskey and gin distillery founded in 2011 by Paul Hletko. The name “FEW” has multiple inspirations: one is the fact that the company started with small-batch production (“we didn’t make a lot”). Another is a nod to the initials of Frances Elizabeth Willard (F.E.W.), a prominent temperance and suffrage leader based in Evanston, though the founders state the coincidence was unintentional. Set in a city historically dry and central to the temperance movement, FEW Spirits embraces that heritage while producing bold, modern American whiskey styles.