Pathfinder Farm Distillery is a family-owned, veteran-owned farm distillery in Pleasant Valley that turns its heritage Bloody Butcher red corn and Appalachian spring water into small-batch moonshine and whiskey. Founded by veterans Nate and Natalie Kraft in 2019, the operation pairs a working farm in Keedysville with a year-round tasting room in a historic log home in Boonsboro. Its Bloody Butcher Bourbon earned Best Farmer-Distiller Bourbon and Best of State honors at the 2025 Heartland Whiskey Competition.
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Grazin’ Spirits, LLCGrazin’ Spirits, LLC is a small, local, Veteran-owned farm-to-bottle distillery founded in 2017 in Columbia County, New York. It produces peach-flavored whiskey, corn whiskey, and bourbon using sourced and farmed ingredients, with in-house production, distillation, barreling, hand bottling, and labeling.GHENT, NY
Meinelschmidt DistilleryBorn-and-raised Washington County residents Cort and Chelsea Meinelschmidt have been making small-batch whiskey, bourbon and vodka in downtown Hagerstown since 2020. Their spirits use locally sourced Washington County grains, including a Maryland rye that became the county’s first straight rye whiskey and earned silver medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and Tokyo Whisky and Spirits Competition. The distillery also ties its bottles to community giving, donating portions of whiskey proceeds to combat-veteran programs and charities while supporting animal rescue through its Pretty Girl Vodka brand.HAGERSTOWN, MD
Hocking Hills MoonshineStarted by brothers Brian and Eric St. Clair in 2015, Hocking Hills Moonshine makes small-batch corn liquor by hand in its Logan distillery. The family-owned business pairs original copper pot stills with artifacts from the St. Clair family’s 1800s farm, giving its tours a distinct step-back-in-time feel. Its lineup includes the original 90-proof recipe, higher-proof Buckeye Lightning, and bourbon aged two years in white oak barrels.LOGAN, OH
Tobacco Barn DistilleryFounded in 2014 by veterans Scott Sanders, Dan Dawson and Sean Cogan, Tobacco Barn Distillery is a ground-to-glass farm distillery in Hollywood, Maryland, making small-batch bourbon and whiskey from corn grown on its own family farm. Producing about two bourbon barrels a week, it revives Southern Maryland’s early distilling tradition while using solar, geothermal and heat-recovery systems to reduce its environmental footprint. The distillery was named the American Craft Spirits Association’s number one farmer distillery in America in 2023.HOLLYWOOD, MD