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There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: laura discord ()
Date: March 01, 2008 06:08PM

Seen what's up on wikipedia for Reston lately?

"...His sons did not share his vision, and sold the land to A. Smith Bowman, who built a bourbon distillery on the site while maintaining a farm on most of the area (a 7300 acre tract). An office retail development and a road are named for him. In 1961, Robert E. Simon bought most of the land, except for 60 acres on which the Bowman distillery continued to operate until 1987..."

The attached picture is captioned "A now abandoned whiskey distillery, long operated by the Bowman family" and is dated 2006.

Hot damn; I didn't know we had an abandoned distillery and I'd definitely like to know where it is. Can I roam around in it?

Anyone?

... And while we're on the subject, do you know of anymore abandoned buildings close by?



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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: . ()
Date: March 01, 2008 06:27PM

Wow, you must be really young or a recent arrival not to remember this. "Virginia Gentleman" whiskey used to be made here. It's off of the W&OD trail near Old Reston Avenue and Sunset Hills Rd. There is a 7-11 in the area as well.

Most of the old distillery is now gone. I don't think you are allowed to roam around in the remaining building.

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: Shaggy ()
Date: March 01, 2008 07:49PM

"There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!"

They say the ghost of old man Bowman still haunts these parts! Zoiks!!

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: Space Ghost ()
Date: March 01, 2008 09:44PM

There's also an old train station from the W&OD railroad right by the distillery. It's across the road from the distillery, next to the 7-11.

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: Thewifesofreston ()
Date: March 02, 2008 09:16AM

There are also a bunch of dried up old skags that drive Mercedes up and down the Reston Towne Centre lookng for young man meat.

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: hu-man ()
Date: April 11, 2018 09:51AM

you can't go in. its illegal. I did some research. went there anyways. got caught by the cops and taken downtown. also had to pay a $500 fine. man my parents were pissed!

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: Ying Ko ()
Date: April 11, 2018 10:31AM

After high school, it was one of the first jobs my roommates had ( I worked at Dulles). The whiskey they brought home was smooth as silk. After it was cut with the pond water, it was pretty awful.

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: 9YBVE ()
Date: April 11, 2018 10:38AM

Maybe the douchebag cigar smokers should take up camp here. I hear it is cool to smoke a cigar while drinking bourbon.

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: Thug.Niggah ()
Date: April 11, 2018 01:53PM

Bourbon is white trash sewage...a true gentleman drinks Courvoisier.

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: Lance Boyal ()
Date: April 11, 2018 07:51PM

There's a 7-11 down thar by ol man Bourbon where that ol train station used to be that dun got turnt into that fancy eatin place.

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: Entrepreneur ()
Date: April 11, 2018 08:38PM

I always thought about buying the old distillery and opening one of my own on that site.

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Re: There's an abandoned bourbon distillery in Reston!
Posted by: Pp yo ()
Date: April 11, 2018 08:46PM

It is now a Planned Parenthood.

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