Duck River Distillery, INC.

Duck River Distillery is the Lewisburg, Tennessee craft operation that's been quietly producing some of the most respected small-batch Tennessee whiskey of the modern era — and the family-owned distillery whose Marshall County location places it deliberately outside the better-known Lincoln County and Davidson County production corridors, in a rural Middle Tennessee farming community more associated with horse breeding and agricultural production than with whiskey making. Founded in 2013 by Doug Hall and the Hall family in Lewisburg (roughly an hour south of Nashville on the Duck River, the body of water the distillery takes its name from), Duck River Distillery operates a relatively small production setup focused on traditional Tennessee whiskey methods with limited-release small-batch and single-barrel programs. The Duck River editorial identity leans on the rural Middle Tennessee setting and the family ownership structure. The distillery occupies a converted historic building in downtown Lewisburg, and the production is structured around the traditional Tennessee whiskey methodology — including the Lincoln County Process charcoal mellowing for the Tennessee whiskey-labeled releases, alongside parallel un-mellowed bourbon production for releases that the family chooses to label as straight bourbon rather than Tennessee whiskey. The Hall family has remained the operating principals throughout the distillery's existence, with no outside corporate ownership and no contract pr…