All Points West Distillery
Named after the Jersey Central Railroad that connected Ellis Island to ‘All Points West’, we offer a distinctly American take on Old World distilling traditions.
Saturdays: Distillery Tour and Tastings
Get Tickets:
Thursday, November 21:
A Mindful Sip: Inner Child Roast & Happy Hour/with Vivian Darkwood
Details and Tickets HERE
Welcome To All Points West Distillery
Historic techniques from the Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland, and Britain—which enabled immigrants from those countries to found dozens of successful distilleries and breweries throughout the region (including 74 in Newark alone)—are married with American approaches. The resulting spirits are innovative and crafted with care in small batches in Newark’s Ironbound, only 6 miles from America’s first distillery.
About us / In the Media:
Meet Newark’s Award-Winning Whiskey Artisan
By Eric Levin in New Jersey Monthly
Maybe if he had never read Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, which stopped him on page 11 with a gritty ode to old industrial Newark and its soft water, Gil Spaier would still be a practicing architect and not an award-winning whiskey maker.
But the passage piqued Spaier’s interest in the waves of immigrants who had pioneered and staffed Newark’s breweries in the Ironbound, the neighborhood into which he and his wife had just moved.
Fast-forward 16 years. In August, Spaier’s barely 2-year-old craft distillery, All Points West, located in the Ironbound, won three awards in the prestigious annual competition run by USA Spirits Ratings.
His 92 proof Malt and Grain Pot-Still Whiskey won a gold medal, was named Whisky of the Year, and, for its understated bottle design and informative labeling, earned Best Spirit of the Year by Packaging.
(excerpt from NJ Monthly, November 2019)
Gil Spaier, distiller at All Points West. Photo by Eric Levin.
Whiskey Vault Whiskey Review
“I’m loving the hell out of it”
“This is flat out a great whiskey”
(the review starts at 2:31)
Newark, NJ
America’s First Great Drinking City
With 35,000 Acres of protected watershed in the Appalachian foothills, Newark, NJ had by 1920, 26 large commercial breweries. These breweries, supplied with amazing water and driven by the passion (and thirst) of British, Scottish, Irish, and German immigrants made the most popular beers in the US. Inspired by these lost enterprises, All Points West Distillery, brings back alcohol beverage production to Newark’s Ironbound.
Follow our journey.
