Catskill Mountain Moonshine Co., LLC

Catskill Mountain Moonshine Co. is the Saugerties, New York craft operation built around the regional Appalachian-and-Catskills moonshining tradition that defined the rural Catskills agricultural economy through Prohibition and the decades after. Founded in 2013 in the historic Hudson Valley village of Saugerties — Ulster County, roughly two hours north of Manhattan on the western bank of the Hudson River — Catskill Mountain Moonshine occupies a small craft-distillery operation that combines the working production floor with an on-site tasting room and retail program in the heart of one of the most photogenic Hudson Valley historic downtown districts.

The Catskill moonshining heritage is the brand's editorial frame. The Catskill Mountains — the broader rural mountain region spanning Ulster, Greene, Sullivan, and Delaware counties on the western side of the Hudson River — has one of the deepest illegal-moonshining traditions in the broader Northeast, dating from the post-Civil War era through Prohibition and well into the 1960s and 1970s. The region's rural geography, the proximity to NYC's enormous illegal-spirits market through Prohibition, and the broader Catskills agricultural economy made it one of the most active illegal-distilling regions in the Northeast through the era. The legalization of small-batch distilling in New York after the 2007 NY Farm Distillery Act enabled a new generation of legal craft producers to reconnect with that pre-existing regional moonshining tradition — Catskill Mountain Moonshine launched directly into that historical lineage.

The product range covers Catskill Mountain Moonshine Original (the flagship — traditional unaged corn whiskey at 100 proof, the production-side anchor of the brand), a range of flavored moonshine variants (apple pie, peach, blueberry, and the seasonal rotating cohort that anchors the tourist-friendly tasting-room retail program), Catskill Mountain Moonshine Aged Whiskey (the brand's growing aged-spirits program that's transitioning portions of the production into longer-aged barrel-rest products), and a small range of cocktail-ready mixers and specialty bottlings. The flavored moonshines anchor the cash-flow side of the operation; the aged-whiskey program represents the editorial growth direction as the brand expands the production calendar to include longer aging cycles.

The Saugerties visitor experience runs through the working production floor and the on-site tasting room. The location in downtown Saugerties puts the distillery on the broader Hudson Valley craft-beverage and historic-village tourism circuit, walking distance from the village's restaurant scene and the broader Hudson Valley regional attractions including the nearby Saugerties Lighthouse, the Opus 40 sculpture park, and the surrounding farm-to-table restaurant cluster. For visitors building a Catskills or Hudson Valley craft-spirits day, Catskill Mountain Moonshine is the regional-heritage-tradition anchor of the broader Ulster County craft-beverage scene.