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As Song Dog Farm Distillery approaches its first anniversary at its Boyds, Maryland farm, recognition is arriving for nearly every part of the experience—from the whiskey in the bottle to the bottle itself and even the building where it is made.
At High Wire Distilling in Charleston, South Carolina, “local grain” is more than a line on the label. The identity of the farmer, and sometimes even the field where the corn was grown, can follow the grain all the way into the aging warehouse.
Southern Grace Distilleries may have one of the most unusual distillery settings in America. After spending an afternoon behind the fence, we discovered that the whiskey is every bit as memorable as the prison.
Follow the scenic route into South Georgia and you’ll find a distillery doing something distinctly its own. At 13th Colony Distilleries, the relentless summer heat, heavy humidity, and temperature swings of Americus aren’t background scenery. They’re part of the whiskey-making process.
The Story Behind A. Smith Bowman and the Pioneer Spirit That Still Flows Today Some distilleries are famous because they produce a unicorn bottle. Others because they have been around forever. Then there are places like A. Smith Bowman Distillery, where the history is just as interesting as the whiskey itself. We love the stories…
The original Manhattan, the original Old Fashioned, the original whiskey sour — all of it was built on rye. Bourbon is the newcomer here. Rye is the whiskey that built the country, then nearly vanished from it, then came back from the edge of extinction to reclaim its spot on the shelf. Here’s how that happened.
Some distilleries announce themselves with bright lights and big-city polish. Swamp Fox Distilling Co. did something different.
It set up shop in Buena Vista, Georgia, in a renovated 1908 cotton warehouse on the town square, leaned hard into local history, and built a small-batch whiskey identity around grain-to-glass production, Southern storytelling, and a name tied to one of the Revolutionary War’s most elusive figures.
