Five Mile Mountain Distillery
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Let’s face it people! Whiskey has been part of our nation’s history since the beginning, and moonshine is a deep-rooted ingredient in the mix that is Floyd County, Virginia. During prohibition, neighboring county Franklin was hailed as “Moonshine Capital of the World.” However, Floyd was actually a much larger producer. Some of the biggest houses on our main strip in downtown Floyd attest to that because they were built with the all mighty money from moonshine!
Old timers from these parts tell stories of hills so covered in moonshiner’s fires that they resembled fireflies rising out of the meadows on a summer night. Or how they would back their cars all the way up the windy one lane road of Five Mile Mountain to load their trunks with whiskey so they could barrel through the brigades of police cars coming to break up the party. Here in Floyd County the stories of moonshining, either making it or running it, are as rich as the historic vein of Appalachian music that pulses through Floyd—and we are proud of it!
We will be Floyd’s first distillery since prohibition. We are using the same old recipes with traditional copper stills on open flames. Our batches of whiskey are handcrafted and kept small so we can ensure our product is known for the same quality as our predecessors. Now that it’s time to share the magic of Blue Ridge Mountains shine, we’re bottling up the love, history, and distinctive taste of Five Mile Mountain and putting it on the shelves for everyone to enjoy. Cheers!
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