By 2013, Maggie’s Farm produced Pennsylvania’s first commercially available craft rum since Prohibition. The original set-up used a 75-gallon pot still and a 300-gallon dairy tank for fermentation.

We grew into a 250-gallon pot still with 5,000 gallons of fermentation capacity by 2016. These stills, now in retirement, are still proudly on display at both our original distillery’s cocktail bar and rickhouse and at our new distillery in Pittsburgh’s South Hills neighborhood of Upper St. Clair.

In 2022, we secured our first bank loans and acquired a former 22,000-square-foot wig warehouse in Pittsburgh’s South Hills neighborhood of Upper St. Clair. We renovated it into a new state-of-the-art distillery, full-service restaurant, and cocktail bar that opened in December 2023. The new distillery includes 10,000 gallons of fermentation capacity and an 800-gallon pot still with a custom-designed gooseneck/downward lyne arm, similar in style to Jamaican rum and Scotch whisky stills, to maximize the capture of the fermentation’s natural flavor and aroma compounds.