Some 100 years after prohibition, a distillery in Providence is serving up local liquor.

And as Pamela Watts of Rhode Island PBS Weekly found, it's not just your run-of-the-mill alcohol either.

It's both organic and oceanic.

This story is part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

We're actually transforming things that came from the ocean and from the land into something that then we're putting out into the world.

It's this kind of beautiful transfer.

I remember the first time I went to like my local liquor store, which is the one that I just go to to buy wine for my wife.

And I was like, oh, that's my vodka. I made it.

Making it in the vast sea of liquor varieties are Dan Neff and Manja Rubenstein.

Neff, a Rhode Island native, and Rubinstein, a Brown University grad, started Isco, the industrious spirit company five years ago.

We're on the site of what was the Providence Steel and Iron Company.

They made structural and ornamental steel for over 100 years.

We really see ourselves as a continuation of that maker community,

but in a different way.

Way different, as in what do you get when you mix agriculture and aquaculture?

An ocean potion of organically crafted spirits.

Oyster vodka is a first of its kind in the nation named Ostrida, and seaweed gin is the newest offering, christened sea flow.

ISCO CEO Rubinstein says, sustainably sourced vodka, gin and bourbon, as well as a splash of experimental elixirs, allows them to...

Have some fun, make delicious things and do something that was not negatively impacting

the environment and then sort of throw it in the creative hopper and you get us. How did you land on

the idea of concocting sea brews as liquor? We were having some cocktails and we were

enjoying some oysters.

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