OUR DISTILLERY
ABOUT US
For more than four centuries our forefathers have been producing fresh whiskey in the hills of Virginia. Now, for the last 30 years, this once elusive drink is available for all to enjoy.
Until 30 years ago, whiskey for popular consumption, had been made in column stills, handling thousands of gallons per hour. Only at Belmont Farm, our whiskey is produced in a genuine solid copper pot still. While others may be flooding the market, our pot still whiskey is slow and handled with care, to preserve all of the aroma and taste of a fine fresh whiskey. Our copper pot still is truly the secret of our whiskey.
On our farm, we grow our own corn, harvest it, store it, and grind it, in preparation for our whiskey. We add only choice malt to our corn meal, which is cooked in our stainless steel cooker. We are proud of our yeast preparation in our stainless steel yeast tank, which is carefully stirred and watched. We follow a unique family recipe to cook the corn mash. After cooking is completed, the mash is sent to copper fermentation tanks for four days. The fermented mash is then sent to our 3000 gallon copper pot still and is distilled. (This copper pot still was constructed in 1933. Although this form of whiskey production had been abandoned in the United States, we at Belmont Farm have dedicated ourselves to the continuation of pot still whiskey). Once the whiskey leaves the pot still, it then proceeds to the doubler where it is further distilled, to increase the proof and insure our quality product. The whiskey is now ready to be bottled and is sent to the bottling room, where it is prepared for shipment.
Our operation at Belmont Farm Distillery is family owned and operated. It is with great pride that our family at Belmont Farm has chosen to preserve a national tradition of copper pot still fresh whiskey in both our Virginia Lightning Corn Whiskey and our Kopper Kettle Virginia Whiskey.
BELMONT FARM
Belmont Farm was an old English Land Grant in 1836. During the Civil War, Belmont Farm was occupied by the North and was involved in the Battle of Cedar Mountain. Nearly 3,000 soldiers were killed in one day. Upon the North's departure, the main house was burned to the ground. During the great Depression a tenant house was built on the property that lasted until 1975 when it was replaced with the present brick Colonial home.
Belmont Farm, today, consists of 195 acres of estate grown corn, wheat and barley, which is used to produce our fine whiskey. Also, produced on the farm is hay for the cattle and horses.
