United States
Founded in 2010
Their ethos is quality and simplicity, each of their products packaged in medicinal-style flasks with typewriter-written labels.
Kings County’s Whiskeys have won numerous awards from the American Distilling Institute, the American Craft Spirits Association, and the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition, and have been praised by the New York Times, Wine & Spirits Magazine, GQ, The New Yorker and other sources.
Kings County’s Whiskeys are mashed, fermented, distilled, and aged onsite in Brooklyn, never sourced from other producers. Known for their revolutionary Peated Bourbon, Kings County definitely shows their range, boasting an impressively diverse line up of award-winning Whiskeys, Bourbon, Moonshine, Spice Whiskey, Single Malt and flavored Whiskeys.
Kings County Straight Bourbon
Kings County Straight Bourbon is made from local organic corn and malted barley from the United Kingdom. The booze magicians distill it twice using copper pot stills and age it in new charred oak barrels. The rich corn aroma, sweet oak sap, and flavors of vanilla and caramel persuaded the judges at San Francisco World Spirits Competition thrice: they got Double-Gold in 2019.
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Kings County Distillery
A typewriter the two distillers found on the sidewalk in Williamsburg is used to make the labels that adorn their clear, flask-like bottles, while a hairdryer (made by Revlon) is used to afix each bottle seal. Handwritten scrawls on a chalkboard keep track of different batches, and mesh laundry bags are used as strainers.
Kings County Distillery
Kings County handcrafts all of their product out of the 119-year-old Paymaster Building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard just steps from legendary site of the Brooklyn Whiskey Wars of the 1860s.
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Their Whiskeys have won endless awards from the American Distilling Institute, the American Craft Spirits Association, and the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition, and have been praised by the New York Times, Wine & Spirits Magazine, GQ, The New Yorker and other sources.
Kings County’s Whiskeys are mashed, fermented, distilled, and aged onsite in Brooklyn and never sourced from other producers.
Originally based out of a 325 square-foot room in East Williamsburg, Kings County got its humble start as the smallest commercial distillery in the country, possessing only five 24-liter stainless steel stills that produced Whiskey seven days a week, 16 hours a day.
In 2012, the facility was moved into the Paymaster Building in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. The distillery boasts traditional copper Whiskey stills created in Scotland, wooden fermenters built locally by Isseks Brothers, and even has a corn and barley patch at a small farm onsite.
The impressive distillery is a beacon of sustainable and traditional whiskey production and one of the pioneers of the craft distillery movement in the US, named Distillery of the Year in 2016 from the American Distilling Institute.
They currently offer tours of their award-winning facility, with tastings that are offered Tuesday through Sunday afternoons, and the Gatehouse tasting room in the historical entrance to the Navy Yard is open every day.
Distillery info:
- Country United States
- Established 2010
- Status Active
- Address 299 Sands Street, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn NY 11205
- Phone 347-689-4211
- Websitehttp://kingscountydistillery.com
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