was once home to many distilleries, but these days there are just a few operating in this New York City borough making gin, vodka, and of all sorts. One of the best known—and the oldest to date in the modern era—is , which just added a new whiskey called Empire Rye to its core portfolio. We got to sample this new release, and it’s a good one.

was founded in 2010 by Kentucky native Colin Spoelman, who is also the distiller, and David Haskell, who is now the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine . The distillery, located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard along the East River, makes bourbon, rye, and American single malt, along with a peated bourbon and coffee whiskey. The Empire Rye category was established in 2017–the rules are that the whiskey must be made from at least 75 percent grains grown i

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