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AWARD: GRIST 2021 Environmental Fixer

Founder Emily Darchuk was named a 2021 Grist 50 Fixer. Each year, Grist highlights 50 emerging leaders across the US who are working to create change and a better future across climate, sustainability, and equity.

https://grist.org/grist-50/2021/#emily-darchuk
https://grist.org/sponsored/these-companies-turn-the-old-into-new-again-and-again/
Screenshot of the Grist profile on Emily Darchuk. Text reads This entrepreneur knows: Where there’s a still, there’s a whey. Grocery shelves groan with eco-conscious alternative products, but food scientist Emily Darchuk saw a hole you could drive a milk truck through: Nobody develops or markets sustainable booze for the conscientious cocktail aficionado. When it comes to liquor, “nothing spoke to consumers like myself who cared about flavor and also about having a ‘why’ behind their products,” she says. At the same time, she was aware that cheese-making generates 9 pounds of whey — a mix of lactose, proteins, and water — for every pound of cheese. It’s edible, but often leaves the food chain as fertilizer or biofuel. She knew there had to be a better whey.  Darchuk figured out how to distill the stuff into a crisp, aromatic, grain-free, not-at-all-cheesy, clear spirit and launched it last year as an upcycled alternative to vodka, gin, and rum. Wheyward Spirit has already won a Good Food Award and many blind taste tests. Her mixology recs: Enjoy it straight up or, perhaps, as a Wheyward martini.

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