Distillery
Kings County
Colin Spoelman and David Haskell started distilling in Brooklyn, New York, in 2010. Their first space was just 325 square feet, run with little more than a hot plate and a few small stills. Kings County grew from there, moving in 2012 to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where copper pot stills imported from Scotland now do the work. The distillery's first product was moonshine, an unaged corn whisky that let them start selling almost immediately while bourbon and rye aged in barrels. That early start paid off. Kings County is often called the oldest operating whisky distillery in New York City since Prohibition ended. Its whisky is still mashed, fermented, distilled, and aged on site in Brooklyn today.
