The Albany Distilling Company, ADCo

Albany Distilling Company (ADCo) is the New York state capital's first legal distillery since Prohibition — and the Capital Region craft spirits operation that's quietly built itself into a meaningful Northeast craft whiskey producer since opening in 2012. Founded by John Curtin and Matt Jager in downtown Albany, ADCo occupies a converted commercial building in the city's emerging craft-beverage district, with the working distillery, an on-site tasting room, and a small retail program integrated into a single multi-use facility a few blocks from the New York State Capitol building. The Albany location is editorially significant for Hudson Valley and Capital Region craft-spirits identity. Albany sits at the head of navigation on the Hudson River, was historically one of the most important commercial cities of pre-Civil War New York State, and had a substantial pre-Prohibition distilling industry that, like most American distilling, was entirely shut down by the Volstead Act and never re-established at scale. ADCo's 2012 founding represented the first legal whiskey production in the city's downtown core in nearly a century, and the operation has anchored a slow but real revitalization of the Albany craft-beverage scene over the past decade. The product range covers Ironweed Bourbon (the flagship — a small-batch bourbon distilled from New York State-grown corn and aged in new charred American oak, the brand's most-distributed product), Ironweed Rye Whiskey (the rye program — f…