Charlescote Farm
This is where it all began. A fourth-generation working farm, Charlescote was where we fell in love with creating. We grew up working on the farm, tending to the cows, orchards, and fields. At a young age we started making cider and eventually hard cider. That lead to an interest in distilling Brandy, which ultimately led to the production of whiskey using Charlescote corn. The farm continues to be an important part of Bully Boy's long-term vision, not only as a source of traditional dent corn, but also as a testing ground for other, more unique strains of corn as well as other botanicals and ingredients used at our bar
The Vault & Bully Boy
In the basement of the farmhouse lives a vault built from fieldstone. Our grandfather snatched a three-inch steel door from a defunct bank during the depression and behind it built an enviable collection of pre-prohibition and prohibition-era spirits. When we opened the steel door, we discovered everything from “Cow Whiskey” to “very old vodka” to “Medford Rum.” There, amongst the dust and bottles, was an old framed picture of a horseshoe with a cryptic eulogy: "Bully Boy. A Willing and Patient Family Instructor." Bully Boy was a draft horse that worked on the farm in the early 1900s. In a fun bit of family history, we discovered that our great-grandfather was close friends with Teddy Roosevelt in college. He named his favorite horse after Teddy's famous expression “Bully!,” meaning great or extraordinary.
