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A. Smith Bowman Distillery, founded in 1934, operated as the only legal distillery in post-Prohibition Virginia until the 1950s; closed and moved to a different location in 1988; Atherton Whiskey was a pre-prohibition brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey first produced by J M Atherton & Co. First bottled and marketed in 1867, it was once ...
The primary brands produced by the distillery were the Virginia Gentleman and Fairfax County bourbon whiskeys. [3] In February 1988, it relocated to Spotsylvania County, near Fredericksburg, into a former FMC Corp. cellophane plant at One Bowman Drive, where operation continues as a microdistillery owned by the Sazerac Company. [4]
By 2003, the brewery had expanded to multiple varieties of small batch ales distributed locally. By 2005, the company had expanded its distribution to cover the majority of New York State and Pennsylvania. In 2009, a new 20,000-sq-ft building was built to accommodate the company's expansion nationally and internationally. [1]
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In 2008, two copper pot stills from Scotland were used to distill the first batches of whiskeys in their original brewery. The company name was changed to include "distilling" and Town Branch was branded. After four years of aging, the company began bottling and selling by October 2012. In February 2015, the Town Branch Single Barrel was released.
The most recent plan involves a 2,000-acre expansion to the 780-acre, but the report states that “future market conditions could justify expansion up to 4,000 acres.”
Chicken Cock Whiskey is a historic brand of bourbon having origins rooted in Bourbon County farm distilling.. James A. Miller began distilling as early as the 1830s. [1] The brand was established soon after [2] the Bourbon Distillery was built in 1856. [3]
Virginia Gentleman's producer, A. Smith Bowman Distillery, was founded in 1934 [2] by Abram Smith Bowman and his sons, Smith and DeLong. It was originally based on the Bowman family's Sunset Hills Farm in Fairfax County, Virginia, in what later became the planned community of Reston.