Distiller Trevor Peterson has made Bixby Gin for several years through his label, Lloyd Distillery, but it wasn’t until very recently that he ditched his day job in software sales to go full-time with it. He talks about how scary it was to take the leap, about his deep Italian roots in San Francisco, about how his parents would punish him by taking his tools away as a kid, and about how his love for Big Sur resulted in the distillation of a bright, botanical gin.

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