Broadslab Distillery

Just went to Broadslab over the weekend for their tour and tasting, wow what a fabulous place!!! A true innovator and distiller genius, Jeremy is as down to earth and kind as they come. He makes his products with the highest of standards, cutting no corners– and its really, really good!!! The property is beautiful– both the tasting room and the distillery are literal works of art. The staff is friendly and their gift shop is well stocked with really cool things.
Get over there and taste their products, you will be amazed!!!
Thanks for a great tour on Saturday guys!
Tonya

Master Distiller gives excellent tour of the craft of distillation of Moonshine and Rum. Processes involved in an authentic legal licensed working North Carolina Moonshine Distillery.
Nice museum and working production area shows how historically correct distillation operates on a daily schedule.
After the tour you can buy lots of souvenirs and associated farm to table food products at the seperate store and welcome center and Museum.

This was a great tour! Jeremy really knew his product and taught us so much we didn’t know about the distillery process. The staff are all very friendly. Definitely a place worth visiting. They even open until 9pm during the holidays and the tour includes a tasting as well as some souvenirs. The store also sells some amazing jams! Will be back!

Really nice place, Jeremy is great and gives you a wonderful tour to understand the whole process in making the moonshine.
It’s open until 9 pm during the holidays. Must come by and enjoy the experience.

$ 12 per person for the mandatory 1 hour brewery tour prior to a thimble size taste. Cannot sale alcohol to the public. Cashier did not know price points. Pushing tshirt and other merchandise sales is the deal here. Was going to plan a large motorcycle benefit ride to this venue, but deep pea gravel driveway and across busy road grass parking makes that a no also.

Moonshine at its finest! Smooth, delicious and purist product on the market! Do yourself a favor and visit for the tour and tasting with the owner who is a 3^rd generation moonshiner, full of great stories and all around great guy!

Me and my guy were spending Independence Day nice and easy this year, so we decided to book the tour with tasting at this great little distillery today. It’s about a 50−60min drive from Raleigh to Benson and worth the drive.
The tour was given by the owner, Jeremy. He gave a great tour, including some history of moonshining in the area going back to his great great gradfather’s time. He explained the process from start to finish. It impresses me that this distillery is a «dirt to bottle» enterprise. They grow the corn, and do the distilling all on their own, right up to filling the bottles (which are not imported, they are American made), sealing the bottles, and putting the labels on. A big, beautiful 500 gallon still is the focal point of the operation.
After the tour we got to taste all their products. There was the Legacy Shine, and Legacy Reserve, the first clear, the second enhanced through charred oak. My guy preferred the clear, he said it has the great moonshine taste he’s used to. I loved the Reserve, it had a great flavor. Nice oaky notes and extremely smooth. Then there was the old fashioned type straight corn shine, a little harsher, but really great with some lemonade, which they have on hand.
Appleshine was next, which was really tasty, apples and spices, and a nice warm taste to it. As I type this I am trying to concoct recipes for it in my head, it’s so good.
Then came the rums, silver rum and spiced rum. The silver rum was right up there among the better rums, smooth, not sharp at all. The spiced rum was fantastic, I want to make tropical drinks with that stuff as soon as I can get to an ABC store and get some.
The actual tasting area is clean and inviting. The bar itself is gorgeous. Our server was fun, she liked to talk about the product and was very friendly.
Right now, they can’t sell any bottles on site, you have to go to an ABC store, however they expect to be able to sell each visitor one bottle come October 2015.
This business is a real grass roots operation, and personally I’d love to see them make it big, they truly do have a superior product.

Awesome new distillery in Benson! Jeremy the owner took my friend and I on a kick ass tour and taught us how moonshine was made! We are in town for a wedding and are traveling from PA. We decided to check out some local wineries and came across this gem. Melissa was bartending and she was super cool! If I ever find myself back in Benson NC I will absolutely be revisiting! Cheers

My impression of moonshine comes from the Beverly Hillbillies, the Hatfields & the McCoys, Ma & Pa Kettle and a lot of other elite sources of culture where it was served from a jug with three x’s on it by a barefoot man, usually bearded, toothless and named Pappy. Yeah, I wasn’t highly informed on the topic, but Jamie W. and I received a first-​hand education from Jeremy Norris who owns Broadslab. We actually met him briefly in Kinston through Vivian Howard’s assistant Holley, as she was giving us a tour of the town. I remembered him from the moonshine episode of «A Chef’s Life» when Vivian and her husband Ben paid him a visit.
When we met Ben at Chef and the Farmer, he encouraged us to pay a visit to Broadslab on the way out of town. It was sort of on the way back to Raleigh from Kinston via some really scenic roads where we passed by a Confederate cemetery and a lot of cows. We arrived at Broadslab right at noon when he opens up his tasting room to the public. It’s a nicely renovated building with his moonshine and plenty of Broadslab merchandise on display (photo:
). It turns out except for a sales assistant, he is pretty much the whole show at his two-​building operation. For $ 12, we got a private tour and a tasting.
His still is housed in a huge barn-​like building just a bit down the road, so he took us in his truck and showed us a big brick-​encased copper still that fed into a barrel with the temperature regulated by an upside-​down Mason jar (photo:
). There is quite a balance of art and science in making moonshine very similar to any winery, and he patiently explained the process to us and let us look at all the barrels of bubbling corn and barley mash including one that had a bouquet garni of fruit and spices for his Carolina Coast Spiced Rum line (photo:
). Back at the tasting room, I was able to have a taste of four of Jeremy’s hand-​crafted moonshine creations, Jamie only one since he volunteered to drive most of our route to Nashville afterward.
There’s his traditional Legacy Moonshine made with white corn whiskey (photo:
) and his Legacy Reserve which had a deeper oakier taste (photo:
). The Spiced Rum was great, but my favorite was the Appleshine, deceptively tasty as I certainly felt it later in the car. All of them were amazingly smooth, nothing like you would expect based on the media image moonshine has had over the years. There’s definitely a renaissance going on with moonshine as we saw billboards for higher-​profile distillers on our road trip like Olé Smoky. The quality of Jeremy’s moonshine definitely deserves recognition beyond eastern North Carolina, and I can’t wait for him to get the licensing to sell to California distributors. Yep, it’s that good.