With the recent release of Wonka to theaters, it seemed only fitting to share an email about Tamworth Distilling, a craft distillery out of New Hampshire that founder (and a 2023 Food & Wine Drinks Innovator of the Year) Steven Grasse would even call a bit Wonka-esque. Grasse is the marketer who, in 1999, dreamed up Hendrick’s Gin. Fast forward to 2015, Tamworth was born and now produce over 55 products, of which I’m sure you won’t find anywhere else. From their Sylvan Mist Gin, a consumable cocktail garnish that branches between both scent and spirit as a wearable woodsy unisex fragrance and cocktail modifier to Crab Trapper,  a bourbon base steeped with a green crab, corn and low-country boil blend mixture to aid in the invasive green crab population. We also can’t forget Graverobber Unholy Rye, infused with maple syrup tapped from graveside maple trees from their nearby unmarked Colonial era graveyard.

Their latest product, Saison de Frai, is a mission to bottle and preserve the essence of New Hampshire’s Swift River: a four year apple brandy with real trout roe.

Tamworth really is creating some of the most unique spirits products out there.