See how one man's journey into New York's history started a movement. Meet a group of craft distillers, farmers, entrepreneurs, historians, and policymakers as they band together to celebrate the past, present, and future of Rye Whiskey and what it means to the people of the state that made it famous.
Direction
Balas brothers capture distillery atmosphere intimately.
Production
Gorgeous amber-lit barrel rooms and copper stills.
Director
Ryan Andrew Balas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
New York was America's original whiskey powerhouse before Prohibition destroyed 1,000+ farm distilleries—this doc tracks the deliberate, political effort to reclaim that identity.
The Empire Rye standards are legally strict: 75% NY-grown rye minimum, distilled to proof, aged minimum 2 years in charred new oak—making it more regulated than Kentucky bourbon.
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