Grand opening of Covalent Spirits Distillery

This afternoon Westminster Mayor Dr. Mona Becker officially welcomed Jennifer Yang Drew Cockley and Covalent Spirits Distillery to the Main Street Westminster family. The Westminster Common Council and much of the staff celebrated the official grand opening at the ribbon cutting on Thursday, November 17th, 2022 at 3:00 pm at their tasting room, located at 118 East Main Street, Westminster. With Daniel Hoff Ann Thomas Gilbert, Greg Pecoraro Tony Chiavacci, Kevin Earl Dayhoff Dayhoff Westminster

Covalent Spirits: Creating Bonds Through Sharing.

Covalent Spirits: Creating Bonds Through Sharing.

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Dec 5, 2021

Covalent Spirits is new distillery, tasting room, and event venue coming soon to Westminster, MD. We launched an Indiegogo campaign (https://igg.me/at/covalentspirits) to raise money to help with the renovation costs. Covalent Spirits is moving into the old City Garage on Main Street, a historic building built in the 1920s, but it needs a lot of TLC. With your help, we can restore a piece of history, reinvent this space, and revitalize a part of downtown Westminster.

Covalent Spirits is a craft distillery, tasting room, and event venue that is dedicated to bringing distilling back to Westminster, MD. Located 45 min from Baltimore and 75 min from DC, Covalent Spirits is nestled in the heart of Carroll County, surrounded by rich history and beautiful landscapes.

Covalent Spirits will be taking an experimental approach to creating a variety of spirits, including vodka, gin, brandy, liqueur, and whiskey. We want to help our customers better understand their palates and better appreciate what is in their glass. In chemistry, "covalent" refers to a bond created through sharing (electrons). We believe that's how you form the strongest and most memorable bonds -- sharing a drink, sharing a memory, sharing a community. That is the "covalent spirit,” and that is the essence of our company.

We officially incorporated in early March 2020, right before the pandemic hit. Because of the pandemic, we had spare time to focus on business planning, but we also had to deal with contractor shortages and increased costs of materials. Since this tasting room is where we want the community to share and connect, we thought its build-out would be the perfect use of the money raised by this campaign.

Our Story

Meet Jenn and Drew – the Masterminds of Covalent Spirits!

Jenn is our “Chief Thinker” and a science geek at heart. A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Johns Hopkins University, she is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of management/technology consulting experience. Jenn started her own consulting company in 2016, and she also operates TasteBuds Events, an event design company that focuses on themed food/beverage tastings.

Drew is our “Chief Taster” and product quality control guru. He graduated from Gettysburg College and received a Doctor of Education (EdD) degree from The Johns Hopkins University. He has been a public educator for almost 30 years, first as a math and computer science teacher, then as a principal (many locals might recognize him as the former principal of Century High School). He currently works as a principal in Howard County.