The Distillery at Greylock WORKS
The Distillery at Greylock WORKS is made up of distiller Ryan Max Riley, bartender Daniel, and co-founder Joan Gaskins whose spirit continues to animate the distillery from afar.
(Ryan hard at work)
An entrepreneur who most recently founded The Shires Tutoring Company and a true rum artisan trained at some of the best distilleries in the world, our Master Distiller, Ryan, makes our gins and rums by hand with exceptional and uncompromising care. Drawing on his experience as a skier on the U.S. Ski Team for many years and growing up in the mountains of Colorado, he forages many of the botanicals used in Forager Gins and Rums in the mountains of the Berkshires, and he designs our rums not only for summer cocktails but for classic winter ones as well, the creamy, warm ones with flavors such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and gingerbread you'd want while sitting by a crackling fire.
(Ryan taking flight)
A bartender with exceptional cocktail skills and a great appreciation of guests and hospitality is hard to find, but we immediately knew we’d found one when we met Daniel. At our cocktail bar, he will primarily be the one taking care of you and making you his incredible concoctions. Here’s to many meaningful, pleasurable & and memorable moments.
(Daniel pouring a flight of our spirits)
​​Joan, trained at some of the best distilleries in the world as well, is an outstanding chef and a wizard with rum and gin ingredients and infusions. Part Irish, she has an incredible ability to dance a jig—that's how we know when we've nailed a new recipe.
(Joan and Ryan in their element)