Kings County Distillery
Distillery · Brooklyn Navy Yard ·
NYC's premier distillery offering tours, flights, cocktails, and award-winning whiskey
NYC's premier distillery offering tours, flights, cocktails, and award-winning whiskey
"Tucked in the old Paymasters Building inside the Navy Yard is the Kings County Distillery. For 8 dollars you can get a tour of their beautiful facility and a brief history of whiskey and it’s relationship with New York City. The tour ends with a whiskey tasting. Out back in the garden you can order a cocktail using the distilleries spirits. This is a perfect weekend trip, and awesome for anyone out of town." - Adam Brodowski & Clara Bunker
"Like many local distilleries, Kings County shifted some production to hand sanitizer but continues to offer whiskeys in 200 ml and 375 ml sizes and four varieties of Virtual Tasting Kits (guided Zoom tastings with a certified whiskey expert) that include three to five 200 ml samples and run $123–$196; kits can be picked up at the tasting room or delivered across New York State, with free delivery on orders of $50 or more, and cocktail writer Kara Newman suggests using Kings County’s chocolate-flavored whiskey as a nightcap Negroni substitute." - Leah Rosenzweig
"At the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Kings County Distillery—normally a bourbon and moonshine producer—added a third distillation to remove flavor and impurities so its alcohol is high enough to become hand sanitizer; co-founder and head distiller Colin Spoelman says, "All the alcohol that we have is going to end up as hand sanitizer," their first run is a thousand 200 ml flasks with supplies to make up to 4,000 bottles, which they plan to give away on site with a suggested $5 donation, and Spoelman admits they are "post-math at this point." - Gary He
"A distillery that figures in the founders' professional background—both founders previously worked there—and is co‑owned by New York editor‑in‑chief David Haskell." - Chris Crowley
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