![]() ![]() When you start doing this, you don’t know what lies ahead.”Ĭraft distillers such as Grout are producing the first legal homegrown spirits in New York since Prohibition. You would have thought I made a business plan for doing this, but, no, not at all. “I didn’t know it was going to be this successful. Last year, Harvest Spirits sold 7,000 bottles of vodka in New York. It opened in 2008, after about two years of preparation, and is slowly expanding its line of products. ![]() Many of the barrels have been decorated by Grout with fanciful illustrations: a sleeping gnome, pears, monkeys in silhouette.Ībout 20 miles south of Albany, Harvest Spirits is one of just 15 small distilleries operating or under construction in New York, which has the largest concentration of small, or craft, distilleries east of the Mississippi River, according to the American Distilling Institute. ![]() Inside, there is a pungent aroma of alcohol and fresh apples. Spirits are sold at the farm, on Route 9 in Valatie, and there are tours and tastings on weekends. The distillery, called Harvest Spirits, is the brainchild of 37-year-old Derek Grout, whose father owns Golden Harvest. Now the Columbia County farm is hoping to draw visitors for another, more adult reason: fruit spirits such as apple vodka, pear brandy and applejack that are distilled on site, in a copper still, and stored in oak barrels from a bourbon distillery in Kentucky. ![]()
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