Mohawk Spirits

Mohawk Spirits Distillery is located in the heart of the scenic Mohawk Valley of upstate New York. We source our fruit and spring water from New York. We are a private business and do not offer tours at this time. All of our distilling operations occur in glass under vacuum, and our largest pot is 200 liters.
Our distillery is built upon the purported foundation of the first black A.M.E. church in Canajoharie. In 1857, five African American men, representing African Americans who had been meeting for some time in a local church assembled to incorporate the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at our site. Rev. Richard Eastup, a freedom seeker himself, was appointed to oversee the Canajoharie mission church in 1862.
Although no church minutes or congregational records have been found, the indigenous period limestone block for our building, quarried from the Shaper Quarry in Canajoharie, dates to this period. The same limestone from the same quarry was used to construct the Brooklyn Bridge.

Author: Dirk Jahn