Media Coverage

A brief article in today's Leesburg Today:

A little paragraph highlighting our distillery on the Loudoun County Farm Tours this weekend:

One such newbie is Catoctin Creek Distilling Company, located off East Richardson Lane in Purcellville. Catoctin Creek is the first family-owned distillery to be established in Loudoun since before Prohibition and has already made quite a name for itself in the community. Visitors will see the distillery in production, including the 400-liter custom-made Kothe still and condenser, and will learn all about the art of making distilled spirits.

Read the full story in the Leesburg Today.

And more, here: Leesburg Today.

It was nice to be featured in the Washington Jewish Week, an article highlighting the little known fact that our distillery, apart from being certified organic, is also kosher:

Becky and Scott Harris, are not Jewish, but a segment of their target audience certainly is. Hence the hearty Hebrew salutation and the official certificate declaring the business kosher -- making Catoctin [Creek] one of the world's few distilleries with that status, according to Rabbi Tzvi Rosen of Star-K, which supervises kashrut at the operation.

Read the full story in the Washington Jewish Week online or the print version here..

From the September/October 2010 issue of Virginia Neighbors, we were awarded one of Central Virginia's "Blue Ribbon" products!  What an honor!

Read the full online version of the magazine here.

Check us out on Hotmixology, a cool new show which airs on Fox Business.

From American Craft Spirits:

Score: 95

Hands down the best white dog/white whiskey/moonshine I have ever tasted, and considering I taste more of these than most people will ever get a chance to…damn. The fruity nose is near majestic, like a local orchard shop, its clean concrete floors and white walls wafting with the scent of apples, pears, and peaches, all in full ripeness just beneath their skins — amazing – and like those shops, it fills a long noisy room with the anticipation of its flavors. But then the palate makes its own statement: again, more fruit and this time, candy in concentrate, like a carefully crafted eau-de-vie, but with a bready, yeasty, rounder body for balance. This isn’t spicy like the big bruising ryes we’re accustomed to, but rather its flavors focus on the body of the spirit itself, the pure essence of the rye which comes when the alcohol is rendered out by a true craftsman. The finish reminds you again that this is grain, which helps to balance out some of the earlier, more fruity moments and makes this more than a just a one trick pony. If you are a fan of craft spirits, you’ve got to seek this out. This is a cult product from some producers who aren’t huge on the scene right now, but deserve to be. Scott and Becky Harris are working magic in their little shop in Purcellville, Virginia. Find their bottles, buy two, drink one, and own what’s sure to become a legend.

MOONSHINE OVER MY HAMMY from American Craft Spirits on Vimeo.

We had a nice interview on Chwisgi.com, a whisky lover's web site (from Sweden, no less). Some insight into the distillery and how and why we started Catoctin Creek:

I love to see exper­i­men­ta­tion and new ideas. While I value the tra­di­tional approach, with­out exper­i­men­ta­tion, noth­ing won­der­ful and new would ever be dis­cov­ered.

Read the full interview at Chwisgi.com.

Hannah Hager of the Loudoun Times-Mirror reports on the demonstration distillation of George Washington's peach brandy at the historic Mount Vernon distillery.  Scott Harris, founder of Catoctin Creek Distilling Company, describes the process of distilling this peach brandy at the historic distillery.

The spirits he produces are the same as the one’s George Washington once cultivated, but the technology used to beget it has come a long way.

Read the story in the Loudoun Times-Mirror.