As with the business world, haute cuisine, and the United States Congress, whiskey distilling is a game long dominated by men. It’s a fact Cheryl Lins, owner, distiller, and distributor at Delaware Phoenix Distillery, makes no bones about. “There are many people out there,” she writes on her website, who hold the view “that men are the only distillers out there, and the more facial hair they have the better they are at (or could be) distilling.”

Lins is living proof of just how wrong this stereotype is: in a world where so many…