Distilleries in Florida

Saint Augustine Distillery

St. Augustine, Florida

St. Augustine Distillery sits in the country’s oldest city, a 1907 ice plant turned liquid gold laboratory. Run by a rag-tag band of twenty local families, the place is a spirit-making shrine born from every scrap of expertise they could muster. They’ve won awards for bourbon, and the rum is potent enough to knock barroom. The gin sings of citrus, from ingredients. Bourbon so good you’ll forgive that it’s produced next door to a cathedral; pot-distilled rum bites like a sailor’s knuckle, and New World gin smells of citrus sunshine, not old-world tonic. Free, self-guided tours walk through bulkheads and offer sips of bourbon, gin, vodka. Walls display the city’s lore and a plaque that explains why this place backs Habitat for Humanity and local artists. Truffle pairings? Yes, they’ll have you licking your fingers with delight. Bottom line: craft meets history in a place that doesn’t bother with pretence.

• Saint Augustine Distillery features unique truffle pairings.
• Tour explains bourbon-making process with flavor notes.

Islamorada Brewery & Distillery (Islamorada)

Islamorada, Florida

Islamorada Brewery & Distillery in Florida is a bright spot in a city that thinks tropical is a marketing term. Inside the neon-yellow taproom you’ll find rotating craft beers and award-winning spirits that actually taste as good as they look. Cocktails are made to taste, not to impress. The pelican mascot Spanky — because why not a cartoon bird on your glass?

• Unique flavored beers like Key Lime
• Free tasting at distillery

City Gate Spirits

St. Augustine, Florida

City Gate Spirits in St. Augustine, Florida, proves you can make something worth a pint without a steel mill and a thousand-year-old oak. Their distillery captures the laid-back vibe of the Gulf, turning citrus-kissed sunsets into bottle-filled bliss. The line-up is all-American: a cheeky moonshine that tastes like a sweet tooth on a sunny patio, whiskies that pack a punch of nostalgia, and rums that would make a beach-comber jealous.

• Offers free mini shot tastings.
• Distillery has dog-friendly policy.

Islamorada Brewery & Distillery (Fort Pierce)

Fort Pierce, Florida

Islamorada Brewery & Distillery is the only place in the Florida Keys that turns sun-bleached rum into a proper craft ale, sitting in plain Fort Pierce — no mystical jungle needed. The joint boasts the Keys’ first craft beer — a Wheat Ale that smells of citrus groves and an IPA that makes sunrise look jealous. The taproom offers flights so you can taste daybreak, dusk, and nightfall all in a single visit, and you can even pocket your cocktail in a take-home pouch for a beach-side toast. Merchandise ranges from shirts to sweatshirts because the brand wants to be as sold-out as a sun-baked beach. Their food isn’t world-class, but the fries? Out-of-this-world-good. Weekly events keep the place lively, and tours of the production line let you see where the magic (and scurvy-flavoured grain) happens.

• Expertly crafted beer flights available
• Cocktails served in take-home pouches

Invasive Species Brewing + Distilling

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

In the sweltering glare of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies Invasive Species Brewing + Distilling — a place that pretends to be a sanctuary for craft beer while secretly being a carnival of flavour. Run by native brewers, the establishment boasts a taproom brimming with 24 wildly different, locally forged ales: from audaciously fruity sours to aggressive IPAs and experimental brews that make your palate question its existence. Daily food-truck rotation adds a street-food frenzy to the scene, while the staff — patient, passionate, and oddly earnest — sees their task as a noble duty, not a job.

• Unique ingredients used in beers.
• Excellent service with patient staff.

Good Spirits Lounge

Okeechobee, Florida

• Distillery-made gin and craft cocktails.
• Twisted Fried Green Tomatoes are a standout.

Sugar Sand Distillery

Lake Placid, Florida

• Unique production process with homegrown sugar cane.
• Variety of spirits made on site daily.

3.14 Pi Craft Beer & Spirits

Siesta Key, Florida

Three point fourteen Pi – that’s not a nod to mathematicians, but the name of a Siesta Key joint that has been tripping off its feet since 1997. A martini bar that pretends it’s the speakeasy of the 1920s, serving a Blasé that tastes like history and a jalapeño-tossed Spicy Mango that will make you wonder whether you’re drinking a cocktail or a dare. The chandelier flickers with a smug glow, and beneath a shaded Tiki hut the pizza ovens roar, hurling wood-fired pies with a secret herb blend that has more personality than most people’s Instagram filters.

• Live music on Fridays is a major draw.
• Great beer selection with unique offerings.

Frazier Creek Brewing & Distilling Co

Stuart, Florida

Frazier Creek Brewing & Distilling Co. is Stuart, Florida’s answer to a paradox: a place that sells both ale and whiskey without being pretentious. The master at the helm, Dan Rogers, turns grain and oak into award-winning beverages, proving you don’t need a fancy title to create quality.

• Unique art displays throughout the taproom
• Hazy IPAs with unique flavor twists available

Copper Bottom Craft Distillery

Holly Hill, Florida

• Small-batch distillery produces handcrafted spirits.
• Family-owned business with welcoming atmosphere.

Marlin & Barrel Distillery

Fernandina Beach, Florida

• Unique flavor profiles in espresso rum
• High-quality ciders are exceptional

Manifest Distilling

Jacksonville, Florida

Manifest Distilling is the only full-scale organic craft plant to put Jacksonville to shame – a rare beast that actually turns grain into something more than just a splash of rum. Sitting beside Intuition Ale Works in the city’s Sports District, it operates on a simple principle: strip every batch to its ‘heart’ and never let a whiff of filler get past the barrel. The result is a lineup of gin, vodka, rye whiskey and bourbon that would make a seasoned connoisseur crack a smile.

• Distillery has knowledgeable staff who know products.
• Cocktails are powerful, delicious, and creative.

Loaded Cannon Distillery

Bradenton, Florida

Loaded Cannon Distillery in Bradenton, Florida, is a rip-roaring affair that pairs a pirate-ish façade with genuine barrel-by-barrel craft. The place is built around copper-kissing, hand-hammered stills christened after notorious female corsairs – Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the like. Their Anney’s Blade Vodka is as sharp as the name suggests, a tribute to a woman who would have preferred rum to respect.

• Distillery produces spirits completely on premises.
• Flights allow for exploration of different products.

Good Liquid Distilling Company

Sarasota, Florida

• Distillery produces in-house made liquors.
• Unique cocktails with surprising flavor combinations.

Big Cypress Distillery

Miami, Florida

Big Cypress Distillery in Miami proves that a bottle can still feel like a revelation. They run on a pure, unvarnished ethos: only organic sugar and molasses, aged in freshly toasted American oak, which gives their rums a depth you can actually taste. Hell’s Bay Rum and Magic City Gin headline the cocktail bar, while the orange-spiced rum — infused with real Florida orange peel and a whisper of mangrove honey — makes you question why you’ve been drinking elsewhere.

• Distillery hosts Jazz Vinyl nights with live music.
• Bartender Ryan offers extensive knowledge on spirits.

Distillery 98

Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

• Distills vodka through crushed oyster shells naturally.
• Uses column distillation for smooth vodka.

Sugar Works Distillery, LLC

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

In New Smyrna Beach, a woman-veteran runs a distillery that treats craft like a battleground.

• Everything is made in-house.
• Spirits are distilled on-site daily.

Indian River Distillery

Vero Beach, Florida

Indian River Distillery in Vero Beach, Florida, is a place where the idea that a campfire chat can produce a brand of spirits sounds as absurd as the claim that a sunny climate can make whisky better than in Scotland. But there’s a grain of truth. The crew takes the old-school distilling method and laces it with a touch of Florida heat, turning locally grown produce into moonshine, rum, vodka and, shockingly, decent whiskey.

• Distillery has unique, homemade ingredients.
• Whiskey knowledge is expertly shared among staff.

30A Distilling Co

Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

In the heat of Santa Rosa Beach, 30A Distilling Co. takes the idea of a beachside brewhouse and turns it into a craft operation. No pretentious mumbling – just small-batch, genuine spirits that are bold, tasting like the Gulf.

• Unique taste profiles in bourbon, rum, vodka
• Exclusive souvenir glass with every purchase

Aggregation Distilling Company

Crystal River, Florida

• Half distillery / half beer tap bar concept
• A unique and welcoming atmosphere outside

Black Creek Distilleries

Middleburg, Florida

• Offers unique, diverse rum varieties.
• Emphasizes effort and care in production process.

Bushwacker Spirits

Sarasota, Florida

Bushwacker Spirits, Sarasota, Florida – they’ve managed to squeeze a sun-burnt island vibe into a bottle, and do it with the kind of precision you’d expect from a watchmaker rather than a holidaymaker. The coconut rum isn’t your run-of-the-mill beach-bar flavour; it’s a quiet, nuanced, almost smugly sophisticated profile that refuses to over-whelm but still hits the mark with a creamy texture that makes you feel you’re sipping on a cloud of lazy waves.

• Unique coconut rum flavor profile.
• Creamy texture adds to drinking experience.