Originally housed in a 325 square-foot room in East Williamsburg, Kings County Distillery began as the smallest commercial distillery in the country, with five 24-liter stainless steel stills making whiskey seven days a week. In 2012, the distillery moved into the Paymaster Building in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard, just steps from the legendary site of the Brooklyn Whiskey Wars of the 1860s and the former distillery district of the waterfront.

Kings County blends distilling practices from a variety of cultures into creative whiskeys that remain traditional while defying convention, using Scottish copper pot stills, open fermentation, and local grains to make American whiskeys that expand the category. One of the preeminent craft distilleries in the US, the American Distilling Institute named Kings County “Distillery of the Year” in 2016 and again named “Distillery of the Year” in 2023 by the New Orleans Spirits Competition.

Friday & Saturday Tours: 12-4pm
Find out how Kings County Distillery became the longest-operating whiskey distillery in NYC since prohibition! Learn about our process from milling, mashing, fermenting and distilling, then enter our barrel room for a tasting of some of our core products.

No accessible bathroom is available. Closely supervised children are welcome at the tasting room before 8pm. After 8pm the tasting room is for adults over the age of 21. Stroller parking only available out back, no strollers inside. Only service animals are permitted inside. Dogs are allowed in the backyard.