Why we're building this, and why now.
New Hampshire taught me how to distill. Portsmouth is teaching me why.
I spent years running a distillery through New England winters — watching a seasonal business fight the calendar every year for six months of the season we could count on. Somewhere in that grind, my brother Dwight and I started talking about what it would mean to build something together, on our own terms, in a place with a story worth telling.
Portsmouth's Olde Towne district is that place. It's a working waterfront neighborhood with real bones — brick storefronts, a river, a history of craftsmen who built things meant to last. Olde Towne Distillery is our answer: a spirits house rooted in Black distilling heritage, built by family, meant to be a gathering place as much as a production floor.
This site is a placeholder for now — we're mid-buildout at 522 High Street. But everything below is real: the people, the plan, and the reasons we're doing this.