Floodwaters can’t dampen their spirits

Vodka and water may not be a very good mix. But take a distillery menaced by a flood and stir in some caring, tireless friends, and the result can be quite flavorful.

That was the happy ending to a stressful first week of June for Syntax Spirits. Its distillery at 625 Third St. Unit C in northeast Greeley was swamped when the Cache la Poudre River, swollen by mountain snowmelt and repeated rains on the plains, rose out of its banks and into nearby industrial areas.

“We didn’t have any damage last September” when massive flooding devastated parts of the Front Range,…