Black Button Distilling
85 Railroad St. | 585-730-4512
blackbuttondistilling.com
Founded in 2012, Black Button Distilling is the first grain-to-grass craft distillery to open in Rochester since the end of Prohibition, and it uses only locally-sourced ingredients. It’s Four-Grain Bourbon has received high honors at spirits contests, and its Lilac Gin, released every year around the Lilac Festival, has become a Rochester springtime staple. Black Button’s booze has been good from start, but it has grown and refined its products and has started aging its whiskey longer, which should make for a richer, more complex pour. In July, Black Button plans to open a new distillery on University Avenue, leaving its first home on Railroad Street.
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