To get to the new frontier these days, a person has to be willing to
hitch their proverbial wagon to some pretty wild horses. The kind that
perhaps drag you away from a secure job and a place you've been happily
living, and run full force into the hinterlands of financial insecurity,
to a town or city or state in which you've possibly never dwelled,
toward a topic you've never studied further than "bartender, I'll have
a...," and sometimes to the craziest place of all: back into your
childhood bedroom at your parents' house.
This is what the modern-day breed of pioneering craft distillers
do—they take big chances. With their lives as much as with their
products and their money (or the money of others). In the Northeast,
that gumption has also lead to lobbying to revamp or dismantle old laws
on the books since Prohibition that made it awfully difficult to distill
any kind of alcohol for production or sale. New York, in particular,
has seen an overflow of distilleries like free run off the still—there
were only two operational in the state in the aughts; now there are
over 50, with more approved licenses on the books every day. Other
states, like Massachusetts and Vermont, aren't too far behind, if not
ahead. And while there are only a handful of producers in New Jersey,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, they've been wrangling
against rigid old laws with the other Northeastern states in mind as
successful models.
To get a sense of the best spirits coming out of the Northeast
today*, I tasted my way through over 40 thoroughly unique bottlings, not
a single one like another and each with its own story to tell. These
spirits are the cream of the crop: well worth your attention and
hard-earned do-re-mi, not just because these distillers are the
hard-working underdogs of the booze industry, but, most importantly,
because these gins, whiskeys, rums, and other assorted liquors are delicious.
The revolution, you see, will not be televised (actually, it looks like
it's on social media)—but it looks like it may well be distilled in a
column or pot near you.
*Of course, no list is perfect. I know that as I type this,
someone is within an inch of launching a new, gorgeous sipping rum or
gloriously fragrant gin or single-malt whisky that would bring a tear to
a Scotsman's eye. And, truth be told, there were some distilleries I
reached out to that just couldn't get their product to us before
deadline. If you don't see your favorite here, send a smoke signal
telling us what it is and why you love it. We always want to hear about
talented producers making a stand-out spirit
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