Navy Yard’s Paymaster’s Bldg now a distillery with cornfield
The interior of the old Paymaster’s Building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been transformed. It is the new home of Kings County Distillery. And now that it’s open, it is offering tours and tastings.
“Our work renovating the 113-year-old Paymaster’s office is finished — for a little while — and we’re ready to share it with our friends and customers,” said Colin Spoelman, who with his partner, David Haskell, has improved and expanded the size of the tasting room, which is open for tours every Saturday from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. (Weekday tours are available by appointment only.) The tours include a whiskey tasting and admission to the Boozeum — “our in-progress exhibit of distilling history in New York City.”
As the Eagle reported last summer, the distillery had outgrown its 600-foot facility in Bushwick and opted for the 7,000-square-foot Navy Yard site. Spoelman and Haskell said at the time they chose the Navy Yard for its central location near the East River and Williamsburg.