From their historic distillery location in Fredericksburg, A. Smith Bowman distills premium handcrafted small batches of award-winning bourbons and innovative experimental spirits, such as gin, port-barrel finished whiskey, caramel bourbon cream liqueur and rum. In 2016 and 2017, the distillery was awarded “World’s Best Bourbon” at the World Whiskies Awards for its Isaac Bowman Bourbon.

Founded by Becky and Scott Harris in 2009 as the first legal distillery in Loudoun County since before Prohibition, Purcellville’s Catoctin Creek Distilling produces the award-winning flagship Roundstone Rye whiskey, as well as gin, brandy made from Virginia-grown grapes and aged in French Bordeaux oak barrels, and other fruit brandies – peach, apple and pear.

Copper Fox Distillery founder Rick Wasmund opened his distillery in 2005 with a traditional malt floor and kiln, using local fruitwoods to smoke and dry the locally-grown barley, which was developed at Virginia Tech. The distillery, with locations in both Sperryville and Williamsburg, makes a variety of whiskies – Copper Fox Rye Whiskey, a single malt and whiskies with various barrel finishes – as well as a gin.

Founded in 2017 by father-and-son team Michael and Lorenzo Paluzzi, Falls Church Distillers draws from the family’s Italian heritage and offers a full menu of Italian food and then some, as well as wine, beer and nonalcoholic beverages, plus their unique spirits in tastings and cocktails. Falls Church spirits include Church Bourbon and other whiskies, gin, vodka, rum liqueur and apple brandy.

Lifelong friends who met as former classmates and cadet midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, KO Distilling founders Bill Karlson and John O’Mara offered unaged whiskey and gins upon first opening in 2015. In the fall of 2016, the distillery released its first aged spirit, Bare Knuckle American Wheat Whiskey. Choose from several varieties of KO whiskeys—including bourbon, wheat and rye—and gins.

Since opening in 2014, Mt. Defiance Cidery & Distillery managing partner Marc Chretien and lead distiller Peter Ahlf have focused on “lost spirits,” products once forgotten because of post-Prohibition mass production and outdated laws. Besides traditional cider, the team creates spirits ranging from apple brandy and rum (early America’s first craft liquor) to sweet vermouth, cassis liqueur, amaretto, whiskey and Mt. Defiance Absinthe, which contains Virginia-grown wormwood, roman wormwood and hyssop.

Irish-American cousins Tom Murray and Mike Larkin (hence “MurLarkey” Distilled Spirits) worked with friends and family to create small-batch spirits that embody their Irish heritage. Producing their products in Bristow, MurLarkey’s distilled spirits lineup includes whiskey (of course!), such as Heritage Whiskey, along with a selection of other spirits whose tastes sparkle like a leprechaun at the end of the rainbow: Smokehouse Whiskey, vodka and gin, plus whiskies infused with cinnamon, lemon, coffee and more.

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