(Reuters) – Curls of smoke blanket a glass filled with bourbon whiskey and ice inside a 28,000-square-foot whiskey distillery in the trendy NoHo neighborhood in lower Manhattan. Great Jones Distilling Co. is the New York City borough’s first and only whiskey distillery since Prohibition, which ended a little over 100 years ago. The four-story distillery, which opened last month, was six years in the making and faced many obstacles getting off the ground. “In order to understand what distilling is in New York City, you have to understand the zoning that it takes to be a distillery,” said Great Jones Distilling Co.’s project manager Andrew Merinoff, 31. “This is a labor of love.”Great Jones Distilling Co. is the brainchild of Juan Domingo Beckmann, chief executive of Jose Cuervo.

Source: MetroXpress September 17, 2021 22:18 UTC