Lexington Distilling Company – Lexington, KY
Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co. offers the unique distinction of being both a brewery and a distillery. Our flagship Kentucky Ale line of brews paved the way for the Town Branch Distillery, proudly featured on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Stop by and see us in the heart of bourbon country.
Bittermens – New Orleans, Louisiana
Founded in 2007 by mad scientists Avery and Janet Glasser, Bittermens is an artisan producer of cocktail bitters, using traditional maceration and blending techniques to great effect in producing entirely new-to-the-world flavor combinations for bartenders to add to their repertoire. In 2011, Avery and Janet joined with longtime colleague Mayur Subbarao to found Bittermens Spirits, which produces liqueurs and aromatized wines inspired by old-world flavors, but using new-world processes and adapting these spirits to the needs of the cocktail maker.
Black Button Distilling – Rochester, New York
Since 1922 my family has provided some of the finest men’s suit buttons available. For four generations these buttons have closed suits worn by Presidents, Popes, Kings, and Businessmen the world over. From a young age I went to work in my grandfather’s factory, but it was clear I was meant for a different path. I broke tradition and decided to make whiskey. The lessons I learned in his factory as a kid still guide me to this day; work hard, work with your hands, make your product the best on the market, and you can’t cheat time. My distillery pays homage to my grandfather and the world he knew – where real men worked hard and drank real pot distilled whiskey. My name is Jason Barrett, I started my craft distillery at 24 years old, and I love distilling. I hope you will try our small batch, grain to glass spirits and join me in raising a glass to Living Large in Small Batches.
Caledonia Spirits – Hardwick, Vermont
This small micro-distillery and winery sits on the edge of the Lamoille River in Northeast Vermont. Owner Todd Hardie is an avid beekeeper and naturalist who celebrates both his love of honey and the deep roots that honey, agriculture and the earth all share in their local environment. His artisan gin, vodka and elderberry cordial are produced on stills built from recycled USA stainless steel and are either distilled with or use raw honey as an ingredient. These are truly unique products and a “must try” for any craft spirit enthusiast.
Cardinal Spirits – Bloomington, Indiana
We started Cardinal Spirits to increase connections between people. Spirits make it easier to talk to strangers, friends, and family alike. Discussing things over a drink is usually a great way to have difficult conversations, and to celebrate big moments in life. To increase connections between people, you have to increase the ease of social communication. Spirits: the original Internet.
Copper & Kings American Brandy – Louisville, Kentucky
We use traditional copper pot-distillation to forge non-traditional craft-distilled, natural, pure pot-still American brandies.We make definitive American brandy influenced by American whiskey and American music. We do not make derivative brandy styled upon a European sensibility. Our brandies are batch distilled exclusively in copper pot-stills, are non-chill filtered, with no added sugar, boisé (powdered oak, shavings or infusion) other flavors, synthetic chemicals or caramel colorants for an uncorrupted, authentic, natural flavor, nose and color. Our aged brandies exit the barrel full integrity intact.
Copper Fox Distillery – Sperryville, VA
Founded by Rick Wasmund in 2000, Copper Fox is the only distillery in the world that uses hand-harvested and hand-toasted apple and cherry wood to dry, smoke and flavor their malted barley. All of their products are pot-stilled in small batches and matured for 14-18 months in Bourbon barrels infused with toasted and charred fruitwood and oak wedges. Rick has been referred to as “the chuckling, mad professor of American whisky” by Jim Murray of the Whisky Bible.
Cutwater Spirits – San Diego, California
Vodka, Gin, Rum, Whiskey, Liqueur, mixers, canned cocktails and beyond. We’re always focused on the horizon, the road ahead. We’re just hardwired that way. Armed with some heavy experience, hard earned awards and boundless energy, we’re charging ahead to carve out our place in the global spirits industry. And we invite all who share our passion to join us on the journey.
Dogfish Head Distillery – Milton, DE
As one of the first craft distilleries in America, we’ve been experimenting with small batch vodkas, gins and rums, honing recipes, and building a loyal cadre of spirit drinkers among restaurant guests and visitors to coastal Delaware since 2002. And when you visit us, you’ll find two 500-gallon copper stripping stills and a 250-gallon copper vodka column, sourced from fourth-generation custom fabricator Vendome Copper & Brass Works in Louisville, KY as the heart of our distilling operation. With consumers looking for the same goodness out of their craft spirits that led them to explore craft beer, Dogfish Head Distilling Co. offers a high-quality, distilled spirit, and an honest and authentic approach wrapped in an interesting story.
With a commitment to producing everything 100% from scratch, we use only real ingredients starting in their rawest form – never adding flavorings or bringing in bulk spirits for re-distillation. “With a distillery located in the middle of our production brewery, we get to tap into all the same world-class ingredients, equipment and processes that we use in brewing,” says Dogfish Head Distilling Co. general manager James Montero. “Using the same beer philosophy in our distillation approach, we have developed a diverse portfolio of craft spirits each offering something unique for spirits and beer drinkers alike.”
Finger Lakes Distilling – Burdett, New York
Finger Lakes Distilling overlooks beautiful Seneca Lake from a hillside in the heart of New York State’s wine country. Operating as a New York State Farm Distillery, they use locally grown fruits and grains to produce a range of handmade spirits. Finger Lakes Distilling honors the great wine making traditions of the region by utilizing locally sourced wine barrels for unique finishing on several of their aged spirits.
Garrison Brothers – Hye, Texas
Garrison Brothers Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey is bold, proud and authentic. It’s home-grown and handcrafted from the finest ingredients. Plump, organic yellow corn from the Texas Panhandle. Premium organic winter wheat that we grow ourselves here on the ranch and two-row barley from the Pacific Northwest and Canada. We grind our grain fresh daily and we cook our own sweet mash – one batch at a time. Then we marry the delicious distillate with fresh Hill Country rainwater that we harvest and purify ourselves.
Garrison Brothers Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey is NOT for everyday drinking. It’ll set you back a little. It should be enjoyed in moderation, straight-up, or with just a little ice.
Hartford Flavors Company – Hartford, Connecticut
Our mission is to provide the liquor market – mixologists, retailers, and consumers – with uniquely flavored natural liqueurs that are on-trend and align to the idea that the creative cocktail is an essential aspect of both the social and dining experiences. We want to be both a part of and to extend the new “cocktail culture.”
Hidden Still Spirits – Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Located in the heart of Lebanon County PA, we continue the long history of distilling spirits which can be dated back to 1753. The name “Hidden Still” itself is derived from how the process of distilling spirits had been conducted many times throughout history.
Infuse Spirits – Santa Monica, California
Introducing the world’s first line of single bottle infusions. It is easy to get lost in the liquor aisle. That’s why we launched our company with vodkas that have real fruit and spices – so you can SEE what’s inside every bottle. We don’t just tell you it’s infused, we show you inside every single bottle. In fact, we are the only single-bottle infusion company that sticks to this philosophy: natural, real ingredients inside every bottle. No added sugars, dies, or artificial ingredients – ever.
Manatawny Still Works- Pottstown, PA
The Spirit of Manatawny- Manatawny Still Works was developed to produce world class spirits with character in small batches. Our distillery is modern, but our practices are based on old world production with a reverent nod to the history of the region. From the Lenape Indians, whose name for the nearby creek we borrowed for our distillery to historical figures of importance, for whom we named some of our very first spirits. The spirit of Manatawny is focused on quality, but rooted in the past.
New Holland Artisan Spirits – Holland, Michigan
New Holland’s Artisan Spirits division was established in 2005; eight years after the opening of their craft beer segment, New Holland Brewing Company. The distillation process takes place on a 60 gallon hand-built pot still designed by President Brett VanderKamp and an eighty year-old, 600 gallon refurbished still originally built in New Jersey to make apple brandy. For the past seven years, Brett and his team have been leading the craft distilling movement with their innovative and creative spins on classic American spirits, inspiring fellow craft brewers to follow in their footsteps.
Northern Maine Distilling Company – Houlton, Maine
Founded in 2009 by husband and wife team Scott and Jessica Galbiati, Northern Maine Distillers produces the award-winning micro-distilled Twenty 2 Vodka and the neutral grain alcohol, High Proof Spirit. Both products are made with American grain and distilled in small batches using custom-designed and locally-built 50-gallon pot stills. Each batch is blind tasted before being bottled to ensure only the highest quality product is released to the market.
OOLA – Seattle, Washington
At the Oola Distillery, we want to awaken your palette and inspire you to pause, reflect and ultimately savor the things that make life meaningful. Namely: Good friends. Deep relationships. Art in its many forms. People have been transforming humble grains into noble spirits since the third century, and we proudly join this long line of adventurers, fools and alchemists. Raise your glass to being above ground and lucky enough to enjoy it.
Peach Street – Palisade, Colorado
A lot of folks love to apply the term “craft” to just anything these days, but here in Palisade it’s a way of life. Not in some hip, beard tucked into your ascott way either.
From fruit to glass every spirit we make is hand-crafted right here in Palisade. And not the easy way either. The way nobody would do it if they didn’t have to. We start with local fruits and grains raised by some of the most devoted growers on the planet, often upcycling local fruits that some foolishly deem “too ripe” for market. Our Christian Carl still delivers maximum flavor and high proof in a single distillation, and barrels bring out the unique colors and flavors in each of our spirits.
We could go on for days about how proud we are of our spirits, how much love, grit and moxie goes into each one, but one sip will tell you more than we ever could so we’d say it’s best to start there.
Rogue Distillery – Newport, Oregon
Not only is Rogue an award-winning brewery, but since 2003 they’ve been capturing the spotlight for their innovative artisan spirits. Master distiller and professional chemist John Couchot uses his 150 gallon copper compound pot-still to produce Rogue’s unique line-up of gins, vodkas, rums and whiskies. Over the years they’ve been mentioned in an abundance of spirits publications and have taken home dozens of awards from prestigious competitions around the world.
Row House Spirits – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rowhouse Spirits is a tiny artisan distillery licensed in Pennsylvania as a Limited Distillery – which means we can sell direct to retail consumers as well as to licensed bars and restaurants within the state of Pennsylvania. As of 2014, PA updated the code regulating Limited Distilleries so we can also ship bottled spirits directly to retail consumers within Pennsylvania. Although we are not required to do so, Limited Distilleries may also elect to sell via the PLCB state store system.
Rowhouse Spirits produces very small batch Gin and other herbal spirits and will be setting aside malt, corn, and rye based spirits in barrels to make whiskey that will be offered at a later date.
Triple 8 Distillery – Nantucket, Massachusetts
Here on Nantucket we have a Winery, Brewery, and Distillery. Nantucket Vineyard was the first arm of our business opening in the early 1980’s as a small project of the Long Family. After a few years, Winery employees ended up falling in love with the wine and each other, and voila! – Cisco Brewers was born on the Hudson’s stovetop in 1995. Whispers of a brewery floated on the Nantucket wind, catching the ear of a few people, including a Mr. Harman. Using the previously tested and proven formula of starting a business from another business, Winery and Brewery employees enjoyed a few glasses / pints (respectively) together and hatched the idea for Triple Eight Distillery in 2000.All three businesses are constantly evolving, and we now produce a wide variety of world-class wines, beers, and spirits. Come out and enjoy our Nantucket haven- just prepare yourself in case your mind blows up from all the awesomeness.
Two James – Detroit, Michigan
Born out of the belief that family, friends and community are essential parts of life, Two James is far more than just an extraordinary product. Two James commemorates the exceptional lives of two great men who through hard work, perseverance and passion for life, were able to leave lasting impressions on the people they loved and the communities in which they lived.
Two James is located in Corktown, Detroit’s oldest neighborhood, and is the first licensed distillery in Detroit since Prohibition. Two James is committed to producing only the highest quality environmentally conscious handmade spirits utilizing locally sourced agricultural products with the aim of revitalizing the community and reinforcing the craft product movement.
We invite you to join us in celebrating the Spirit of Detroit™, the Spirit of Family and the Spirit of Friendship. Two James….the Spirit with a Spirit.
