Marble Distilling in Carbondale Is One of the Most Sustainable Distilleries on the Planet

Connie Baker jokes that when it comes to careers, she switched from drugs to booze. She left behind her job in pharmaceutical communications to pursue her passion for distilling and to launch the ultra-sustainable Marble Distilling in Carbondale in 2015.

“It’s so much more fun,” says Baker, who is Marble’s co-founder and head distiller. She always had a fascination with vodka, so when she learned about a distilling school in Washington where you only had to be on site for eight days, she decided to sign up. She thought it would simply be a way to build on her personal interest, but things quickly changed.

“On the first day, I called my husband and said, “We’re going to open a distillery,’” Baker recalls.

While touring numerous distilleries, Baker noticed the incredible…