Female: All right Eli, thank you. A local distillery is about one month away from distributing its first product. Balcones Distillery in Waco was started back in March of 2008 and today Tom Erleegy [SP] got a behind-the-scenes look at the operation.

Tom: Tucked away underneath a bridge on 17th Street in Waco, Chip Tate filled his first barrel of Rumbold, a Rum-like beverage with a Texas twist.

Male 2: Turbinado sugar, fair trade sugar out of Sugarland, Texas, as sort the Rum part of Rumbole and that's mixed with Mission figs and Texas wildflower honey, and we ferment all that together to produce then what we put in our stills.

Tom: Tate also plans on filling barrels with other drinks, including his own Whiskey, but to get to this point, he had a lot of work and not a lot of resources to build the equipment.

Chip: I guess all I really knew is I knew I could build the equipment and I knew I couldn't afford to have someone else build the equipment.

Tom: Tate says Balcones is the only Whiskey distillery in Texas, so with every bottle will come a little Texas pride.

Chip: We've gotten lots of excitement from Texans about the idea of having your own unique kind of Whiskey and yeah, so. I'm excited to produce it. There's only about 50.

Tom: But Tate says he can't pinpoint where his excitement for making Whiskey came from.

Chip: I think I've always liked good food and for me, a good drink is just a category of good food. For whatever reason, I've always been crazy about fermentation.

Tom: And as Tate continues to ferment and distil, there's no doubt Tate loves what he is doing.

Chip: The Whiskey is very dear to my heart, but it's really the craft of it, I think just doing the work and producing something that becomes well known would be great, but just knowing that you've a good product out there.

Tom: In Waco, Tom Erleegy News 10.

Female: And Tate says his Whiskey should be coming out in the upcoming months. He says the prices on one of his products will range from $30 to $50 per bottle.