About Lee Katrincic

Lee Katrincic is Durham Distillery’s President, co-founder and master distiller, or as we like to call him, our own resident Mad Scientist. Using a little bit of magic, a whole lotta science.

And the cool thing is, Lee really is a scientist. With a BS in Chemistry from Penn State University, he went on to earn his MA from Lehigh University.

He spent the next two decades as Principal scientist at Glaxo Smith Kline and Catalent Pharma Solutions. His innate innovative spirit led him to develop instrumental techniques such as FT-IR microscopy, Variable temperature IR microspectroscopy, IR surface imaging, DRIFT, grazing angle FT-IR, and far infrared spectroscopy. We’re not entirely sure what all that is, but we do know that type of brilliance is what brought Lee to developing award winning Conniption Gin here at Durham Distillery.