We believe that this is God’s earth and that it’s our duty to take care of it. We believe we are here to follow Christ’s example and let love and kindness guide our steps.
Who We Are
Doc Brown Farm & Distillers is a family-owned, family-run business based in Senoia, Georgia. We’re a small-batch craft distiller making premium liquors the old way using heirloom grains grown on the farm and crystal-clear Georgia spring water.
Our farm is at the heart of everything we do. We till the soil, nurture the crops and harvest them ourselves – for the bottle and for the table. This farm and way of life are part of our heritage going back to 1816 and it’s our job to preserve them, share the bounty and pass them on to future generations.
Meet our founders
The family team behind Doc Brown Farm & Distillers
Amy Brown comes from a big family with a long farming heritage and has had a successful career as a mortgage investment banker, raising two sons. She traded in her suits and heels for jeans and boots and manages the farm full time. The Doc Brown farm is a family legacy passed down to Amy and she is keeping the tradition alive.
Paige Dockweiler was born into a farming family in South Georgia as her father managed large plantations growing soybeans, watermelons, cotton and corn. After earning her nursing degree at the University of Georgia, Paige pursued a successful career specializing in oncology and hematology. She’s the ‘Doc’ in Doc Brown.
Daniel Williams is Amy’s oldest son and has always loved the farming way of life. As a teenager, he worked on the family farm to pay for flying lessons and eventually became a successful commercial pilot for UPS. As much as he enjoys flying, the grounded feeling he gets when he’s out in the fields raising corn is why he does it.
“All three of us love the earth, the soil and the challenges of growing specialty crops. We also enjoy a good sip of bourbon, sitting by the fire, under the stars, after a long day’s work.”
Jimmy Red Corn
Our story started back in 2019 when we discovered Jimmy Red Corn. Now very rare, before Prohibition folks in the South grew it for their hooch. It gave us an exciting idea: “Why not plant some Jimmy Red on the farm and make our own bourbon?”
Doc Brown Farm & Distillers was born. We laid our first batches to casks the following year and what we’d heard turned out to be true – this gorgeous maize results in extremely smooth bourbon with a rich, nutty flavor.
Raising Jimmy Red takes a lot of care. It’s sensitive to pesticides or fertilizers so we do everything naturally, and even hand-pollinate to avoid cross-contamination. Every fall, we save enough seeds for next year’s crop.
Inspired by our success with Jimmy Red, in 2024 we started growing Abruzzi Rye – an heirloom stock from Italy. With heirloom wheat and barley from other Georgia farms rounding out our mash bill, Doc Brown bourbon truly is a taste of the Old South.
Farm fresh ethos
There’s nothing like slicing into a sun-ripened tomato picked from the garden, because the fresher the food, the better it tastes.
The same is true when it comes to distilling and here on the farm we plant, raise, harvest, distil and barrel within a 12-month period. Our grain never sits in sacks or silos where weevils, rats, mold and mildew do their thing. Just as importantly, it doesn’t dry out and lose its flavor.
The same farm fresh ethos extends to how we treat our land. There are no chemical pesticides or weed killers, and we only use natural fertilizers. Our own swarm of bees pollinates the crops, and wild bats patrol the fields at night keeping insects at bay. We grow Texas Bird Peppers in our garden and use them with farm honey to flavor our Day Swigger Hot Honey bourbon liqueur.
Doing everything in harmony with nature leads to fresher, healthier produce that’s better for the environment and tastes great.
High heels and cornfields
Whiskey and a cigar. It’s a man thing, right?
WRONG.
Whiskey isn’t exclusively for men and here at Doc Brown Farm & Distillers we’re breaking down that perception. Two of our founders are bold boss ladies and throughout history women have made, distributed and consumed alcohol.
One boss lady we’re particularly inspired by is Gertrude ‘Cleo’ Lythgoe – AKA The Queen of the Bahamas. She was a liquor importer in New York before Prohibition, who then set up in Nassau to command a business empire shipping the finest Scotch all over America. With steel and charm, Lythgoe kept the whiskey industry going during Prohibition.
Named after our great aunt, our Effie Jewel bourbon is dedicated to all the boss ladies who have worked in the liquor industry. Full of life and exuberance, and equally hard-working, Effie raised her family through the hard years of the Great Depression. She typifies the ‘high heels and cornfields’ mindset we have down here on the farm.
Our values
We love working together as a family, even on the tough days, when everything is going wrong. The farming heritage has been handed down to us and we feel it’s our duty to nurture it and create something new for future generations.
Yep, we’re a little bit old school. We choose traditional farming and distilling techniques and always try to do the right things. If that means it takes us a little longer, so be it. We’ll take quality over speed every single time.