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…
You’re at the bar, someone orders a Manhattan, and the bartender reaches for bourbon without thinking twice. Nothing wrong with that — it’s a fine Manhattan. But it’s also, historically speaking, backwards. The original Manhattan, the original Old Fashioned, the original whiskey sour — all of it was built on rye. Bourbon is the newcomer…
The Buena Vista Whiskey Story That Quietly Became a Georgia Craft-Spirits Footnote 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…
