Historic Bourbon Producer A. Smith Bowman Now Offering Distillery Tours
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Thursday, October 13th, 2011
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For those of you who don’t know, the historic A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Fredericksburg goes way back. Abram Smith Bowman started distilling bourbon back in the years before Prohibition and, after the repeal of Prohibition in 1927, moved to Virginia with his family to continue his bourbon distillation on what was then called Sunset Hills Farm in Fairfax County.
The distillery is now in Fredericksburg and continues to produce a variety of Bourbon whiskeys, rum, vodka and gin.
Their newest offering: distillery tours.
Open to the public, the tours will last one hour and will teach participants about distillation, barreling and bottling of bourbon. The tours will allow participants to see the museum, still house, barrel warehouse, and barrel dump and fill room, as well as sample the bourbon and other products.
Tours will run at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday-Friday or by appointment.
“We are very excited to expand our role in Virginia tourism,” Master Distiller Truman Cox of the historic family-run distillery says.
For more information, visit the distillery website at www.asmithbowman.com.
A. Smith Bowman is located at One Bowman Drive in Fredericksburg (540-373-4555).
-Julia Harbo
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One Response
Carol Nahorniak Says:
October 19th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
October 19th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Cool historical perspective: Bowman Distillery began in what is now Reston, and continued its production there until about 1988. (Sunset Hills Farm was the land Reston that Bob Simon purchased to develop Reston.)