Taste the new Craft Spirits!
Join us to discover the flavor of new distilling - as a traditional American industry becomes a new tasting phenomenon..
Taste whiskey, vodka, gin and other offerings from over 12 new distilleries and enjoy the concert from the hot swing jazz retro music of Robyn Adele Anderson from Postmodern Jukebox.
Drink, dance and enjoy a special Prohibition style Burlesque of the Miss Eliza Dee.
Dapper and Flapper dress is welcome.
MEET OUR COMMUNITY OF DISTILLERS
About Nahmias et Fils Distillery in Yonkers
Hudson Valley Master Distiller David Nahmias and his wife Dorit hand-craft their award-winning spirits with the finest, natural ingredients. They are proudly the sole producers of Mahia in the United States.
Nahmias et Fils, was founded by Dorit Nahmias—a former foreign-exchange trader quoted in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the WallStreet Journal—and Master Distiller David Nahmias, a former computer-software engineer, who was raised in the small Moroccan town of Taznakht. His parents, Joseph and Tamou, and grandparents Saada and Moshe, distilled Mahia, a unique Jewish alcoholic beverage; following the Jewish exodus from the region, his dad became legendary for being the last Jew to remain in Taznakht. Individually, and as a couple, Dorit and David have traveled to Singapore, Venezuela, Panama, London, Montreal, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Israel, Romania, France, Spain, as well as the Napa Valley, Los Angeles, Orlando, Miami, Washington D.C., New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New York. Dorit is a graduate of the Levin Institute and Carnegie Mellon University and David is a graduate of Cégep du Vieux in Montréal
About StilltheOne Distillery in Port Chester, NY
Located along the banks of the Byram River in Port Chester, NY, our distillery is situated in a manufacturing district, surrounded by welders, metal fabricators and commercial fishing vessels. This hard-working environment inspires us to do our best every day. We are the first distillery in Westchester County, NY since prohibition and the world’s first distillery to make gin distilled from honey.
The Heart of our distillery is the fermentation and distillation equipment.
About Standard Spirit Distillery in Brooklyn
Distilled from a high rye thin mash with local NY rye and corn in small batches at our Brooklyn distillery. Fermenting on the grain and then distilling with fresh grains suspended in the column make for a unique buttery corn and spicy rye taste that distinguishes our moonshine to rival any whiskey. Bottling only a very selective Heart Cut portion brings you face-to-face with the complex grain flavor, broad body, and smooth taste. No swill! Drink it straight or in a classic cocktail and come to know where great whiskey comes from, the finest moonshine.
Absinthe Our distillery is founded on experimenting with wormwood spirits. When we started home distilling in Bushwick, wormwood was an illusive banned ingredient, best known for its use in traditional absinthe. On our first distillation we fell in love with more than the myth, the subtle lucid wakeful feel was unlike any other spirit. Unknown to us at the time, absinthe with wormwood was nearing the end of a century old ban. Over a decade of refining our home distilling methods we are releasing a one-of-a-kind wormwood spirit that departs from traditional absinthe, our Oak & Rye Wormwood – a wormwood rye. Made from fermenting a rye and corn thin mash on the grain, single distilling with a wormwood backset through our copper ‘grain in column’ still, and finally stave aging with American and French oak. You end up with a familiar but new taste for what a rye and a wormwood spirit can be. Steering away from traditional herbal absinthe, we’ve dropped the added sugar, anise, licorice, and other herbs – just keeping the wormwood, so you get the feel of an absinthe with the taste of rye. standardspirit.com
About Kentucky Mist Moonshine
Kentucky Mist Moonshine is a craft distillery located in the Appalachian Mountains. Born from a deep heritage of distilling spirits in eastern Kentucky, Kentucky Mist takes pride in distilling every drop of alcohol used in our products, and making flavored moonshine using whole fruit for the most genuine taste.
This distillery in Whitesburg, KY makes vodkalike moonshine, or unaged spirit, and flavors it naturally with local berries and fruit. They call it Kentucky Mist Moonshine. kentuckymist.com
About Kings Country DIstillery
Kings County Distillery is New York City’s oldest operating whiskey distillery, the first since prohibition. Founded in 2010, Kings County makes handmade moonshine, bourbon, and other whiskeys out of the 117-year-old Paymaster Building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We use New York grain and traditional distilling equipment to make distinctive spirits. Our whiskeys have won numerous awards from the American Distilling Institute, the American Craft Spirits Association, and have been praised by the New York Times, Wine & Spirits Magazine, GQ, The New Yorker and other sources. We only distill whiskey for our label and we never buy bulk whiskey from any other source.
First located in a 325 square-foot room in East Williamsburg, Kings County began as the smallest commercial distillery in the country, with five 24-liter stainless steel stills making whiskey seven days a week, 16 hours a day. In 2012, we moved into the Paymaster Building in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard, just steps from legendary site of the Brooklyn Whiskey Wars of the 1860s and the former distillery district of the waterfront. With traditional copper whiskey stills fabricated in Scotland, wooden fermenters were built locally by Isseks Brothers, and a corn and barley patch at a small farm onsite, the distillery is a model of sustainable and traditional whiskey production and one of the preeminent craft distilleries in the United States. We offer tours and tastings every Saturday. kingscountydistillery.com
About Van Brunt Stillhouse
In the pioneering spirit of Cornelius Van Brunt, who was a farmer in the Dutch Colony of Bruecklein, the husband and wife team Daric Schlesselman and Sarah Ludington founded Van Brunt Stillhouse, driven by a love of Craft. The Stillhouse has been producing farmhouse stylewhiskeys in the heart of modern day Brooklyn since 2012.As master distiller, Daric brings a creativity to his recipes while working within the traditions of distilling fine spirits. He has developed a line of spirits tha testablishes his unique voice within traditional spirit categories, as well as our American Whiskey, which is unlike any other on the market.
These whiskeys are celebrations of small batch spirits that showcase the flavorful essence of the grains.Van Brunt Stillhouse takes a time honored traditional approach to distilling. Sourcing wheat, rye and corn directly from upstate New York farmers. Making every spirit from scratch in the waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook in Brooklyn. Our family of whiskeys give a nod to classic styles while remaining innovative, creating bold and flavorful spirits.
About Widow Jane/Cacao Prieto Distillery
Cacao Prieto is an Artisan Distillery and produces bean-to-bar chocolate made fresh daily from the finest organic, single origin Dominican Cacao and distills a line of small batch, cacao-based liqueurs and rums.
For Daniel Prieto Preston, founder of the Widow Jane Distillery, an inventor and aerospace engineer, whose family has been farming organic cacao and sugar cane in the Dominican Republic for more than 100 years. Craft means using the best possible ingredients, employing innovative methods and cutting no corners all in the aim of crafting a superior product. In Daniel’s case, the superior product are his Widow Jane whiskeys and bourbons that have won countless awards and garnered a fanatical following among the high end spirit cognoscenti.
All Cacao Prieto products are sourced from organic cocoa beans from our family’s Coralina farms and organic sugars from the Dominican Republic — in this way Cacao Prieto is now one of the very few chocolate companies in the world that is completely vertically integrated from the farm to the finished product. From pods to beans; from bars to bon bons; from hard science to the ethereal joy of tasting high quality chocolate, Cacao Prieto’s trailblazing methods link the best of the New and Old Worlds to re-define the manufacture, the processing and, of course, the pleasures of chocolate and chocolate based liqueurs and rums.
About Pitorro - Port Morris Distillery in the Bronx
The Legacy of our Distillery began in the lush mountains of Guayama, Puerto Rico. From these humble roots we are proud to offer the finest distilled spirits lovingly crafted to perfection in The Bronx by our Master Distiller. portmorrisdistillery.com
About Barrow's Intense
Have you noticed every brand these days has a story? Something about how unique and amazing their product is or how cool the guys/girls who make it are. The funky place it’s made or the rare and mystical ingredients and unusual way they make it. What’s our story? We have one, everyone does. But for us it all boils down to 3 words: Just taste it!
That’s all you really need to know. Barrow’s Intense Ginger Liqueur is made with fresh Ginger. No extracts, no chemicals, just lots and lots of fresh Ginger. So, are you interested in experiencing the pure, big, bold, powerful flavor of fresh Ginger in your glass or are you more interested in a good read? If you want a good read we suggest you visit your local library but if you’d rather have a great drink give us a taste.
Its all about the taste, INTENSE Ginger, pure and simple. barrowsintense.com
About Gristmill Distillers
We are located in the heart of the High Peaks of the Adirondacks. Keene, New York is where we call home, but you can find our spirits all over.
Combining our love of the mountains and our love of good whiskey made perfect sense when setting out to create spirits of our own. A few distillery tours almost two years ago had us saying, “Hey, we could do this.” Maybe it was the bourbon talking, but it sounded like a good idea at the time, and we ran with it. Upstate New York has a rich agricultural heritage, so it was only fitting to bring a farm-to-bottle operation to Keene.
We strive for quality, working to make smooth, classic spirits that can be sipped straight—but that are just as good in your favorite mixed libation with a dash of this and a garnish of that. We source locally, we mash locally, and we distill locally. It takes some time and elbow grease to build a distillery, and even more time to craft and age whiskies and brandies that are worthy of a dram or two (or ten.) We’ve committed to the long haul though, and we’re proud to literally start from the ground up. Our water flows straight from a spring within a few paces of our front door, our corn is grown by Adirondack Organic Grains in nearby Essex, and our brandy apples are grown, picked, and pressed fresh by Rulf’s Orchard, less than thirty-five miles down the road in Peru. Our barrels are made to order from U.S. Barrel, the oldest cooperage in the northeast and, luckily for us, only a couple of towns over in Wilmington. We’re a New York state farm distillery; we’re homegrown and our products are too. www.gristmilldistillers.com
About Cooperstown Distillers
Cooperstown's first and only microdistillery offers award-winning hand-crafted spirits, utilizing a majority of New York State agricultural products in its commitment as a farm distillery. With two locations right in the heart of Cooperstown, the distillery showcases the "field to flask" experience, offering distiller-led tours of their production facility, and tastings of their full line up of spirits at their 11 Railroad Ave. location. www.cooperstowndistillery.com
About KAS Distillers
KAS was born in Brooklyn to a Lithuanian family and reared in New York. For many years he enjoyed making his own secret family krupnikas recipe for holidays and special events. In 2013, he decided it was time to share his krupnikas with the world and started KAS Spirits. KAS is created in the Hudson Valley town of Mahopac in Putnam county New York. It is bottled and labeled by hand. Its a true craft spirit: a family gift offered to the local community and beyond. The first bottles were purchased and sent with pride by hand to bars and select retailers in the summer of 2014. Krupnikas is a sweet alcoholic drink that is popular in Lithuania as well as Poland (known there as “Krupnik”). Legend has it that Benedictine monks created Krupnikas in the 1500s. Made with sweet honey and warm spices, it became the drink of choice in the Polish and Lithuanian communities as a way to celebrate holidays, weddings, and even just the everyday. Though the Soviets shut down production for many years, krupnikas lived on through closely guarded family recipes, which have been passed down through the generations.
About Afrohead Rums
Born and aged in the West Indies, AFROHEAD Premium Aged Dark Rum is a tribute to genuine inspiration. It is for those brave enough to drink in the greatness of life without the need for pretense or justification. It is meticulously crafted for the storytellers, the rebels, the pioneers. AFROHEAD RUM – NOTHING DEFINES YOU. EXPERIENCE OUR STORY #RUMSPECT Here’s to a rum that stands alone in a world full of uniformity. The time has come to respect your rum. afroheadrums.com
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