Brooklyn Best Competitors

TUTHILLTOWN SPIRITS is New York’s first whiskey distillery since PROHIBITION, distilling some of America’s most prized spirits here in the Hudson Valley. Our handmade spirits, which start at our farm distillery as raw grain and fruit, are made without added flavor or color and are not chill or carbon filtered. Products include HUDSON brand whiskeys: BABY BOURBON, MANHATTAN RYE, SINGLE-MALT, NEW YORK WHISKEY, GOVERNMENT WARNING RYE and NEW YORK CORN whiskey. Other products include Indigenous Apple Vodka produced from 100% locally pressed fresh apple cider and Half Moon Orchard Gin.

Kings County Distillery is New York City’s oldest operating whiskey distillery, the first since prohibition. Founded in 2010, Kings County makes handmade moonshine and bourbon out of the 115-year-old Paymaster Building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We use New York grain and traditional distilling equipment to make distinctive whiskey. Our whiskeys have won numerous awards from the American Distilling Institute, the American Craft Spirits Association, and our bourbon was recently named #2 craft bourbon by Eric Asimov of the New York Times. 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.

Founded in 1982, St. George Spirits is America’s original craft distillery. We were founded as a dedicated brandy distillery, but over the last 40+ years have grown into one of most prolific and innovative craft distilleries in the nation. Today our portfolio includes a range of single malt whiskeys, gins, vodkas, brandies, liqueurs, absinthe, and other spirits. We have remained locally owned throughout our history, but our commitment to our craft has resulted in an international reputation for excellence—as well as 10 James Beard Foundation Award nominations, membership in the Whisky Magazine Hall of Fame, and induction into the Spirit Journal Hall of Fame.