ORANGE COUNTY DISTILLERY

The whiskey, vodka and gin crafted in small batches at the Orange County Distillery start with John Glebocki and the crew working the land his great-great grandparents turned into a farm in the last years of the 1800s.

Glebocki raised onions and other vegetables in the uncommonly fertile black dirt before dabbling in – and then converting entirely to –raising grains for spirits.

That’s where the excellence begins. At the New Hampton, N.Y., distillery run by Glebocki and partner Bryan Ensall, the liquor is extracted from the grains with devotion to craft and quality. You can sip the results of this farmto-bottle process in the beautifully rustic and comfortable barn that gives Brown Barn Farms its name. (The upstairs is a vast, woodenfloored living room under the gambrel roof.)

“If you ever want to know exactly where a bottle of our vodka, whiskey or gin comes from, all you have to do is take a step out our front door and look at our fields,” Glebocki says.

He started the distillery about nine years ago. But he didn’t stop there. About this time last year, he added a brewery. Last March 18, the Orange County Brewery introduced a pilsner, a pale ale and an IPA. That began as a pandemic-era strategy, to add more take-away offerings in cans and bottles. But the brews are enhanced by the proximity to the spirits. Some of the brews are aged in bourbon barrels.

Orange County Distillery and Orange County Brewing Company at Brown Barn Farms

286 Maple Ave. New Hampton, NY

(845) 479-0322

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