Southern Grace Distilleries
Southern Grace Distilleries became a licensed distillery in September 2014. It is located just outside Concord, North Carolina.
Here are some interesting facts about this distillery:
- Before its current location, Southern Grace Distilleries was located in a 2,000-square foot abandoned cotton mill in the county seat of Concord.
- The company relocated its operations to inside Mt Pleasant Prison, a penal institution that was shut down in 2011.
- Before it was shut down, Mt Pleasant Prison could hold 200 to 400 inmates within its 21.5-acre compound.
- Leanne Powell is the President and CEO of Southern Grace Distilleries. She’s also the distillery’s co-owner alongside Thomas Thacker.
- Southern Grace Distilleries is the first distillery in the US to operate out of an abandoned prison.
- The distillery offers day and night tours, which include whiskey tasting and a tour of the entire complex.
- Southern Grace Distilleries are the creators of Zero Dark 130, Sun Dog 130 Small Batch, Sun Dog Apple Dumplin’, and Sun Dog Pink Lemonade.
- Sun Dog Pink Lemonade won platinum at the SIP Awards. The Berlin International Spirits Competition also crowned it the Spirited Lemonade of the Year.
- Sundog 130 has won two gold medals. One at the San Diego Spirits Competition, and another at the Fifty Best American Whiskeys Competition.
- Sun Dog Apple Dumplin’ won silver at the North American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition.
- Southern Grace Distilleries’ Conviction bourbon won gold at the Micro Liquor awards in California. It also won two Gold Medals at the Fifty Best Bourbon competition in New York.
- Every week, Southern Grace Distilleries creates about 1,200 bottles of corn whiskey.
- Every bottle from the company is hand-labeled. Each label carries the bottle’s barrel number, bottle number, and the date it was bottled.
By road, via NC-73 W, Southern Grace Distilleries is a 2-minute, 1.4-mile drive to Well Doctor.