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Alisa Lawrence comes from a long family lineage of distilling.

In 2015 her uncle, Robert Patton-Spruill, founded their family-owned and operated business, New England Sweetwater Farm & Distillery , located in New Hampshire.

Patton-Spruill’s passion began during his childhood summers with his grandfather, “Uncle Bob,” who was his primary teacher “in the craft of distilling Whiskey and Moonshine, but also instilled the value of prioritizing quality over quantity.”

In the 1940s, Uncle Bob used to make whiskey and moonshine to supply his brother’s juke joint in the woods of Mount Airy, N.C. With this rich family history, it only made sense that Lawrence and her cousin Nilaja Young became the next generation to steward the family business, wh

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