Patrick Tanesky was born and raised in Fort Wayne IN. After graduating from Bishop Dwenger High School, he began exploring the world of alcohol. After the first time of making his first batch of beer with his Uncle Mike he was hooked. After a brief foray of running his own cleaning business it became clear he was meant to produce alcohol. He first began at Hops & Harvest learning to make beer and shortly after began to teach others how to do it. He then made the leap into distilled spirits when Three Rivers Distilling Co. opened in 2016. He has been there ever since as The Master Distiller.