I've been dying to check out Tuthilltown Spirits in the Hudson Valley. It is New York's first whiskey distillery since Prohibition. They produce batch-distilled spirits including vodkas, rum, and whiskeys, including New York's first bourbon, Hudson Baby Bourbon, distilled from 100% New York corn.
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| Barrels and barrels of sweet, sweet, whiskey. To hasten the aging process, Tuthilltown custom designed smaller white oak barrels. The Baby Bourbon Whiskey was born. |
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| Whiskey is a shortened form of the Gaelic word meaning "water of life." |
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| The Still |
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Whiskey tasting!
I tried the NY Corn Whiskey (yikes), Baby Bourbon (not bad, zippier than Makers), and the Four Grain Bourbon (eh, not as nice as the Baby Bourbon). |
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| The Tuthilltown Gristmill is right off of the distillery property. It was built in 1788 and was the oldest continuously operated grist mill (where grain is ground into flour) in the state. In the 1980s it becan producing kosher flour for matzoh. It was recently opened as a restaurant, and was where we had dinner. |
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