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If you have ever visited a commercial distillery, you may be familiar with the standard routine: a large crowd ushered through high-tech catwalks, a scripted speech blaring through an earpiece, and a brief glance at massive stainless steel vats from behind a glass partition. Stepping into a true craft whiskey […]

Most people who’ve never tried ours assume flavored moonshine means neutral spirit and a bottle of syrup. That’s the cheap version. As a moonshine distillery in Pennsylvania, we start with real fruit, real sugar, and a corn base we distill ourselves, which is why we’ve built the lineup out to […]

At Mclaughlin Distillery we make eight different bourbons and rye whiskeys, and almost every first-time customer asks the same question at the register: which one should I actually buy? If you’re searching for a local bourbon distillery near me, here’s how we’d answer that in person, based on what you […]

The hardest part of buying one of our bourbon-making kits usually isn’t deciding to buy one. It’s picking the size. Here’s the actual difference between our 2.5, 5, and 10 gallon barrels and who each one is really built for. 2.5 Gallon Bourbon Barrel: Best for First-Time Aging This is […]

Clear spirits get treated like the easy category, something you make when you’re not ready to age anything yet. That’s backwards. A clear spirit vodka has nothing to hide behind, so it has to be right the first time, which is exactly why we run ours the same careful way […]

A bad cream liqueur tells on itself fast: too sweet, too thin, and gone the moment it hits your tongue. We’ve spent years making sure ours doesn’t do that, using real cream and real fruit in small batches, and Mario’s Creamy Limoncello is the bottle that convinces most people we’re […]

A personalized bottle of bourbon beats a gift card in one specific way: it doesn’t get spent and forgotten. We cut your text directly into the glass of four bottles from our range, and which one you choose usually comes down to how well you know the person you’re buying […]

A distillery visit doesn’t have to end at the tasting room. Between daily tours, private tastings at your own house, barrels you can name or take home, and maple syrup finished in our own casks, there’s a fair amount going on here beyond what’s on the shelf. Book a Whiskey […]

Carrying on a Rich Tradition in Western Pennsylvania Pennsylvania has a long, storied history of distilling, tracing back to early farmers who turned their surplus grain into whiskey. Today, that heritage is kept alive in the woods of Sewickley Hills. Tucked away just minutes from Pittsburgh, McLaughlin Distillery is a […]