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Lockhouse Distillery

It was "An Idea So Crazy, It Just Might Work": in 2013, Lockhouse was the first distillery to open in Buffalo since the end of Prohibition. Made entirely with locally-sourced ingredients, the spirits crafted here run the gamut from barrel-aged gin, to a coffee liqueur produced in conjunction with Public Espresso, to their original flagship product and still their most popular offering: a vodka distilled from grapes grown at Freedom Run Winery in Lockport. Lockhouse's products can be purchased to take home from their small retail shop or else sampled in the form of topnotch craft cocktails in their rustic yet classy tasting room.

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Address: 41 Columbia St
Getting there: Metro Bus 14, 16, or 42; Metro Rail: Erie Canal Harbor
Hours: Tue-Fri noon-midnight, Sat 4PM-midnight
Website: lockhousedistillery.com (opens in a new tab)

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The drink selection at Lockhouse Distillery's tasting room begins with a line of creative specialty craft cocktails featuring the same vodkas, gins, and liqueurs distilled onsite, but by no means does it end there. Here in this hipster-friendly but not intimidatingly trendy barroom you can also sample a well-curated selection of other quality spirits sourced from across New York State, a short but oddly eclectic beer list (blue-collar quaffs like Miller High Life and Genny Cream Ale mix incongruously with obscure microbrews), or even take in the occasional live music performance or DJ set.
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