where it all began
Before there was Doc Brown Farm & Distillers, there were farmers.
In 1816, the Brown family came to America from Ireland and Scotland. In 1857, the Dockweiler family arrived from Germany. They came from different places, at different times, but their stories took root in the same place — the land.
For seven generations, without a break, someone in both families has farmed this golden ground we share. They planted crops, raised livestock, fed their families and cared for the land entrusted to them. They worked with their hands, cared for their communities, weathered hard seasons and passed that responsibility from one generation to the next.
Today, that responsibility rests with us — Amy Brown and Paige Dockweiler.
IT'S A FAMILY TRADITION
We are seventh-generation farmers. And while the crops and equipment may have changed, what we believe has not.
- Take care of the land.
- Take care of your community.
- Be kind to the earth.
- Be kind to each other.
- Grow something worth passing down.
- And leave it better than you found it.
Today, we grow heirloom Jimmy Red corn and Abruzzi rye on Georgia soil and turn those grains into bourbon and rye whiskey.
Because Doc Brown didn't really begin with a bottle.
It began generations ago, in the dirt.