Allegany Museum

Cumberland and the Allegany region played a key role in the early career of George Washington. The Allegany Museum’s new first-floor installation will highlight Washington’s role in our region. The exhibition space will include a large-scale model of Fort Cumberland and other Washington memorabilia from the 1750s, encapsulating his career as a surveyor and his participation in the French and Indian War or Seven Years’ War. The footprint of Fort Cumberland, including the fort’s old tunnels, sits steps from the museum. The cabin that served as Washington’s headquarters, the only building to survive from the fort, sits in a nearby park.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Admission to the Museum is Always Free

Baltimore Spirits Company

Copper pot stills. Open top wooden fermentation. Unique geothermal cooling. Our distillery is a mix of state-of-the art and old world distilling, designed to create the most expressive spirits possible.

WHATS INCLUDED

• 10% off Spirits Coupon

Cotton & Reed

Co-founders Reed Walker and Jordan Cotton became friends while working as strategists for NASA and the aerospace industry. They discovered a shared passion for spirits at work happy hours, and decided to leave their desk jobs to start a distillery called Cotton & Reed. Under the direction of veteran barman Lukas B. Smith, Cotton & Reed is now serving award-winning cocktails at the distillery tasting room next to Union Market. Look for our products at bars, restaurants, and liquor stores across DC.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Tasting Flight Voucher

Don Ciccio & Figli

From the picturesque Amalfi Coast in Southern Italy to historic Washington D.C., an Italian family’s legacy steeped in rich tradition lives on through the launch of Don Ciccio & Figli. Francesco ‘Ciccio’ Amodeo, President and Master Distiller, began his journey in the hospitality industry as a young boy growing up in the quaint town of Furore, Italy along the Amalfi Coast where the majority of his family members served as some of the most celebrated and respected chefs, winemakers, and artisanal liqueur purveyors. Francesco’s career in the hospitality industry began in earnest at a resort in his hometown. Rising quickly through the ranks, Amodeo went on to acquire specialized industry certifications.

Armed with this training and a wealth of family history, Francesco left Italy for D.C. to make his mark in the American hospitality industry. Amodeo broke into the D.C. hospitality industry with coveted management positions at prestigious culinary establishments including Butterfield 9, Hook, and Bibiana. Rather than limit himself to one restaurant, Amodeo took a leap of faith, and left Bibiana so that he could concentrate all of his time and energy into creating his artisanal ‘Rosoli’ and Amari line featuring sweet and savory seasonal flavors, aperitivi and Amari giving way to the birth of Don Ciccio & Figli in Washington D.C.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Spirit Flight Voucher

George Washington's Mount Vernon

Open 365 days of the year, Mount Vernon is the most popular historic estate in America. Over 85 million people have visited Mount Vernon since 1860, when the estate officially opened to the public. The estate, gardens, and farm of Mount Vernon totaled some 8,000 acres in the 18th century. Presently, an estimated 500 acres of this historic property have been painstakingly preserved along the banks of the Potomac River.

Visit fully functioning reconstructions of George Washington's Distillery® and Gristmill, located 2.7 miles from the estate’s main entrance. Watch the mighty gears turning and the stones grinding at our Gristmill, where Washington produced flour and cornmeal. Within our functioning distillery, you can see where we make George Washington's whiskey. In 1799, it was one of the largest whiskey distilleries in America. Open to the public from April through October. Tickets are included with general admission.

WHATS INCLUDED

• General Admission Including Tour of Distillery

McClintock Distilling Company

McClintock Distilling uses all organic grains to produce our whiskeys which are milled in-house using our antique stone burr mill. By buying organic, we can ensure the highest quality of grains, free of pesticides and chemical additives and do our part to help support small, family-owned farms. By using heirloom grains we also have a completely different taste profile from the standard whiskeys and preserve the character and flavor for the final spirit. Every step of the process is overseen by our distillers to ensure the highest quality spirits for you.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Tasting Flight Voucher (Includes Shot Glass)

MISCellaneous Distillery

At MISCellaneous Distillery, we make award-winning products from raw ingredients, including all grain grown at our friends farms near the distillery. Our motto is "Live and drink by your own rules.” Come by to get a taste of what we are all about.

WHATS INCLUDED

• (2) Cocktails Voucher

New Columbia Distillers

New Columbia Distillers is a family business owned by Michael Lowe and his wife, Melissa Kroning and John Uselton and his wife, Elizabeth Lowe.

John and Michael come to their passion for craft distilling by wearing many hats in the restaurant and liquor business—not to mention the military and legal worlds. From Houston to Boston to Washington, John has worked in all capacities of front-of-house restaurant work—from humble busboy to award-winning bar- tender to savvy manager. Michael spent a couple of years on a Navy submarine and a few more at private DC law firms. He retired from the law in 2008, bought himself several cocktail books and started investigating the art and science of distilling.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Cocktail Voucher

Old Line Spirits

After more than a decade of flying off of aircraft carriers and being stationed all over the world, they independently decided to settle down in the mid-Atlantic to focus on family, but ended up in the same Navy reserve Prowler squadron. Coincidentally, they were neighbors in Baltimore as well; Mark working in finance and Arch in engineering. With a healthy stint of travel and adventure behind them, sitting still in their new civilian desk jobs just wasn’t enough. Their shared love of whiskey and, at the time, a dearth of craft distilleries in Maryland led them to their true calling: starting their own distillery.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Spirit Flight Voucher

One Eight Distilling

One Eight Distilling is named for Article One Section Eight of the Constitution, which among other things provided for the establishment of a district to serve as the nation’s capital. This connection to history and tradition informs our founding values: we use local ingredients to create the bold flavors of our region for the people who take no shortcuts.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Distillery Tour with Tasting

Peirce Mill

Isaac Peirce built Peirce Mill on Rock Creek in 1829. Using the moving water as a power source, the mill ground corn, wheat, and rye. Succeeding generations further developed the mill, sawmill, orchard, and tree nursery. Before the Civil War, slaves provided much of the labor on the 960 acre property. In 1890, an act of Congress incorporated the mill and 350 acres of the property into Rock Creek Park. The mill operated until the turbine's shaft broke in 1897.

Republic Restoratives Distillery

Republic Restoratives stands for community, authenticity and most of all friendship. We believe that cocktails create community, and that you, our customers, are at the core of what we do and why we do it. Our goal is to create experiences where people feel as connected to Republic Restoratives and to our products as they do to one another.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Cocktail Voucher
• 10% Off Bottled Spirits and Merchandise

Sagamore Spirit

Baltimore is a place for risk-takers and history-makers. Visit us in Port Covington to see how we honor that spirit! You’ll learn about the famed history of Rye Whiskey in Maryland, see our 40-foot mirrored-finished copper column still, and taste three of our award-winning whiskies. Tours last about an hour and are led by our knowledgeable and fun Guest Experience Teammates. Our world-class waterfront distillery is directly off I-95 a short drive from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. We can’t wait to share our spirit with you.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Distillery Tour with Tasting

Smithsonian National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History is home to more than 1.8 million objects and more than three shelf-miles of archival collections. On behalf of the nation, we preserve and share the extraordinary national collections encompassing everything for the original Star Spangled Banner to Abraham Lincoln’s top hat; from the first computer bug to the first artificial heart; from Dizzy Gillespie’s angled trumpet to Dorthy’s ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz. Our archival collections include a remarkable array of American history in documents, photographs, and other works, including major holding on the histories of American business and music.

Through incomparable collections, rigorous research, and dynamic public outreach, the museum explores the infinite richness and complexity of American history.

Our artifacts form a fascinating mosaic of American life and comprise the greatest single collection of American history in the world. Those interested in exploring the history of the Whiskey Rebellion can turn their attention to the exhibition, The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, where we have several objects on display that relate to this historical event. The Price of Freedom surveys the history of American’s military from the French and Indain Wars to the present conflict in the Middle East, Exploring ways in which wars have been defining episodes in American history. The exhibition features George Washington’s sword and scabbard, which he wore as a general and commander in chief of the Continental army and also during his presidency. The last time Washington wore this sword, he led 13,000 federal militiamen to Western Pennsylvania to quash the rebellion in the fall of 1794. By the time the militia arrived, the whiskey tax protesters had disbanded and no military confrontation occurred. Washington’s efforts to demonstrate the strength of the federal government and its ability to stifle internal rebellion through a federal militia had succeeded.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Admission to the Museum is Always Free

Tenth Ward Distilling Company

Tenth Ward Distilling Company is a woman owned micro-distillery located in the heart of downtown Frederick, Maryland.

Specializing in whiskey, brandy, seasonal liqueurs and absinthe, we pride ourselves on challenging the traditional style of distillation while making a product which flavor profile is influenced by our local ingredients.

The name “Tenth Ward” is a reference to the way Frederick City was divided during the late 19th century. Our distillery is located in what used to be considered the Tenth Ward. Drafted at the Frederick Historic Society, the map to the left depicts the boundaries of Frederick’s Tenth Ward in 1873.

WHATS INCLUDED

• Spirit Flight Voucher