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Distilling in Brooklyn, Then & Now

A couple weeks back, Sarah Lohman, author of Four Pounds Flour and Very Good Friend of the Brainery tweeted the awesome little map below, Distilleries in Brooklyn in 1851. Sarah's map focuses on Central Brooklyn, and I love how you can see how concentrated they were in this relatively small area. 


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I wanted to see how the past compared to the recent explosion in distilleries...

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