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The real McCoy, distilled in Duval. Six hand-crafted whiskies, mashed, distilled, barreled and bottled under one roof at 417 Magnolia Street. No bulk spirits. No shortcuts.
Open Tuesday through Saturday.
Six whiskies, packed the old way. Choose a bottle to read its cargo tag and see where it shows up on our menu.
Bill McCoy’s burlock: six straw-wrapped bottles, three, two, one, sewn into burlap. Tap one.
Our rarest pour. A 100% rice-grain whiskey inspired by Lao-Lao, the traditional rice spirit of Laos, aged in American oak and bottled in small batch releases.
Our flagship, aged in American oak barrels on Magnolia Street. Want it in a cocktail? Ask us to make any drink on the menu with Reserve.
A whiskey with standards: bottled at 94 proof and non-chill filtered, so nothing gets stripped out between the barrel and the bottle. It’s also the backbone of our bar: every Old Fashioned on the menu starts here.
Handcrafted with orange blossom honey and all-natural flavorings. On the bar menu as Orange Blossom Honey, and the base of Oh Beehave, Caiprinha and Star F*cks.
Handcrafted with fresh jalapeños and Florida honey: sweet up front, heat right behind it. The spark in three of our house cocktails.
A limited release in the pink bottle: tropical fruit flavored whiskey handcrafted with a blend of locally sourced ingredients. The star of our Flamingo cocktails.
Every cocktail starts with a whiskey we made on site. Browse the menu, then build a flight and taste the whole burlock.
Three questions, one pour. New to whiskey or ten years deep, this points you to the bottle worth tasting first, and what to order when you get here.
We took our name from Bill McCoy’s packing trick, and we hold our whiskey to his standard: never watered down, always the real thing.
Brothers Ben and Bill McCoy run a boatyard near the Jacksonville shipyards, building yachts for the Carnegies, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Flaglers.
Prohibition arrives and the yacht business falters. The brothers look to the water for a different kind of cargo.
Bill McCoy runs whiskey from Bimini in the Bahamas up the East Coast, with Jacksonville as his hub. His buyers include the era’s most notorious names, Bugs Moran and Al Capone among them.
McCoy dealt only in quality whiskey, never watered down, and he dealt fair. His name became shorthand for the genuine article. It still is.
McCoy is credited with the burlock: six straw-wrapped bottles stacked three, two, one and sewn tight into a burlap sack.
In December 2019 we open our doors in Brooklyn, downtown Jacksonville, making whiskey grain to glass, under one roof.
A few months after opening, the pandemic hits. We adjust the plan and turn the still to making hand sanitizer.
Small-batch whiskies made and signed by our founders, business partners Colin Edwards and Ian Haensly, plus a full cocktail bar, flights, tours and classes. Come see where it’s made.
Taste a flight, tour the still, or settle in at the cocktail bar. Everything we pour was made right here.
Must be 21+ for tastings. Holiday hours are posted on Instagram.
Parking. Park in our lot off May Street. The lot entrance is at 476 May St, the building joined to the back of ours, and Get directions takes you straight there.
Comedy every Friday, music trivia every other Thursday, plus book club, Pilates, craft nights, classes and private parties.
Build elevated cocktails around our whiskey, then take your work home. Recent classes included a full bottle and a Glencairn glass.
About our classes
See the still, walk the barrels, then taste a flight with the people who make it.
Tours & tastings
Birthdays, rehearsal dinners, team nights and full buyouts, with whiskey made right here on site.
Plan a private eventNew dates are on the way. Follow along on Instagram.
Follow @burlockandbarrel for last-minute additions.
Easy at-home recipes built on our bottles. Pick a drink and a headcount, and we’ll do the math, right down to how many bottles to grab on your way out.
This is absolutely the vibe you are looking for in a distillery. The owners are absolutely passionate about their drinks.
I don’t normally like whiskey, but I tried Burlock and Barrel at a Women Who Whiskey event and I was amazed how great it tasted… Whiskey is my new go-to drink.
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