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Inside New England’s 2024 James Beard Finalist For Best Bar
30.04.2024 - 17:43 / forbes.com
Barr Hill Gin distillery is a happy place. The space is vast and buzzing with activity – almost literally, as the company built its reputation around protecting honey bees. Their flagship gin — and pretty much everything else they produce—is distilled from local honey and the results have elevated it to a place of honor as the most awarded gin in the United States.
Now the distillery has one more thing to be happy about —the bar at its Gin Lane Distillery was named a finalist for the prestigious James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar. It’s the first Vermont bar to ever be named a finalist for Outstanding Bar, an award given in recognition of consistent excellence in a drinks program, outstanding atmosphere, hospitality, and operations, as well as contributing positively to its broader community.
It’s a tall order, but one that Barr Hill is perhaps uniquely qualified to to fill. The distillery began as an agricultural initiative between a beekeeper and a distiller, hoping to find ways to improve the bottom line for area farmers. These days, their state-of-the-art facility has pollinator gardens outside, and inside was built from the former brownfields ground up for sustainability. Visitors can learn about the care that goes into the production via a self-guided tour that tells the story with gorgeous large-scale images.
Touring the display is perhaps best done with a drink in one’s hand. The distillery's Beard-recognized bar program features everything scratch-made, right down to the tonic syrup for the best G&T you’ve ever had, which is made from two different types of South American cinchona bark with juniper raw honey, locally grown lemongrass, and citrus oils.
That syrup is a microcosm of the entire bar program. “We work hard to make our cocktails as unique and special as possible, while emphasizing local whenever we can,” says Patrick Amice, general manager of hospitality operations. “We use our Barr Hill raw honey — gathered from local apiaries — to make many of our cocktails, including our most popular cocktail, the Bee's Knees.”
The Bee’s Knees cocktail is also the centerpiece of their annual Bee’s Knees Week, raising money and awareness around creating and protecting wild foraging space for bees and other pollinators. I wrote about it in 2019, and now the September event has created over 700,000 square feet (23 acres) of new pollinator habitat to support a diversity of species.
The devotion to sourcing local remains year-round, despite Vermont’s short growing season. “In the winter, it can become harder to find local fruits and vegetables,” Amice says, but local dairy and other ingredients are alway around. For example, Vermont Creamery provides the butter for brown-butter-wash Tomcat
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