#26 - Keir Family Distillery w/ Sam Keir

Crafted Conversations

In this episode I traveled to Northern Pennsylvania to visit the Keir Family Distillery located in the small town of Warren Center. The distillery sits on a farm just 5 miles south of the New York/Pennsylvania state border and is only about an hour from where I spend my time drilling for the Army National Guard.

I had the pleasure of speaking with owner and distiller Sam Keir and learned all about his business and the trials and tribulations of starting a small craft distillery. Sam and his wife Jenn have built a cozy tasting room in an 1890s barn that has been in Sam’s family since the 1930s.

Prior to this conversation, Sam took me on a tour of the entire space as well as the old original still back in the woods of the farm where he began his distillation journey – much to the anxiety of the ATF, but he’s now proudly making whiskey in his new 50gal still in the basement of the barn. The Keir Family is brand new to the game of distilling and are refreshingly humble about their operation and I look forward to seeing where they go from here.

I truly appreciate Sam and Jen for their hospitality and look forward to visiting again soon!

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