North Hampton family launches gin distillery in Maine
Angeljean Chiaramida
When Larry Murphy
got the call from his son, Matthew, asking him to join in a new liquor distillery in Hermon, Maine, near Bangor, it gave the North Hampton father pause for thought.
“To tell you the truth, I thought my son was crazy,” said Murphy, a sales specialist and Air Force veteran. “Then I started to do some research on gin and I found it’s having a resurgence. Gin is outselling vodka. We’ve come into the perfect storm. ”
The result is the founding of The Devil’s Half Acre Distillery and its limited first distillation of Jigger & Jones Gin, that only recently hit liquor shelves in Maine. But from all accounts, the upstart gin is doing well.
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