Maggie's Farm Distillery Strip District

Allegheny Distilling is an urban distillery located in the historic Strip District of Pittsburgh and maker of Maggie’s Farm Rum, the first commercially-available Pennsylvania-made craft rum since Prohibition. Maggie’s Farm is more about what it isn’t, a corporate entity with marketing gimmicks and slogans. Our focus is on making the best products we can and doing it with full transparency. Maggie’s Farm is a truly independent craft distillery founded without any outside funding. In 2008, original founder, Tim Russell, was laid off from a project management position following a corporate acquisition of the company he’d been working at since he left school. He then decided to work for himself, putting all of his energy into making sure his future would be in his hands only. After a couple of years of studying distillation practices and planning out the logistics, Tim took an early withdrawal of nearly his entire 401k, and with small investments from two friends, opened the original distillery with a 75-gallon pot still and a 300-gallon dairy tank to use as fermentation vessel.