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Mickey Heston

Distilleries • West Virginia • WV Barrel Trail

Heston’s conundrum

Sometimes a crazy state liquor law forces you to do strange things as a workaround. That’s why Heston Farm’s Foxfire Restaurant owner Mickey Heston is getting out of the restaurant business, so to speak. It’s Heston’s conundrum. 

Flying Buck TM

Distilleries • West Virginia • WV Barrel Trail

Flying Buck Distillery opens; two others licensed

Flying Buck Distillery is now officially open in Augusta, West Virgnia, becoming the second legal distillery in Hampshire County. 

Wicked spirits distillery

Distilleries • West Virginia • WV Barrel Trail

Wicked Spirits Distillery brings big dreams to small WV farm

Wicked Spirits Distillery sits on a little Ritchie County horse farm outside Harrisville, WV. It’s had a distillery license for well over a year but founder Dustin Huffman has been taking things slowly, testing his product with liquor people and getting everything just… Continue Reading…

Black Draft gains

Distilleries • West Virginia • WV Barrel Trail

Black Draft gains momentum in regional whiskey market

The last time I wrote about Black Draft Distillery, a little farm-based operation near Martinsburg, WV, they were just announcing their expansion plans. Well, the expansion is complete, and things are looking great.

Cider-Mead-Wine • Distilleries • WV Barrel Trail

Wine & Spirits Guide released

The West Virginia state tourism agency has been on a mission over most of the past year to help boost the visibility of the state’s wine and spirits producers. The latest piece of that promotion strategy debuted recently.