Thornwood wines and spirits12/29/2023 ![]() Sunday tour availability is limited so be sure to book your spot while you can! Brunch and dinner reservations are strongly encouraged to help prevent extended wait times The dinner menu is available after 3 p.m. every Sunday! Please book the 12:30 tour if you plan on joining us afterward for brunch. tour, guests are invited to join us for Sunday brunch, served until 3 p.m. Proceeds from Sunday tour sales are donated to the Thornton Historical Society & Museum!Īfter the 12:30 p.m. The tour ventures underground into the fabled limestone artesian well and concludes on the present-day Thornton Distilling Co. The Sunday tour focuses largely on the history of the building and the surrounding area. Guests take a deeper look at the region’s prehistoric origins the brewery’s pre-prohibition brewing operations and its legendary bootlegging operations during prohibition. The NEW Thornton History Tour is hosted by Kevin of SouthCookExplore, author of Images of America: Lemont and the creator of the Chicagoland historic landmark maps project (more info below). Sunday “Thornton History” Tour & Craft Cocktail experience: Hosted by SouthCookExplore The tour concludes with a guided tasting of 4 of our Dead Drop spirits.Īfterward, guests are invited to join us for dinner and drinks! Reservations are strongly encouraged to help prevent extended wait times (book via the link below). The group then journies onto the Thornton Distilling production floor for an overview of the distilling process and to learn how Dead Drop Spirits are made. *Please note – guests are welcome to take group photos underground The fountainhead still flows with the same pristine limestone-filtered spring water that made the early brewers famous. The cavernous limestone space is the source of many local legends. Guests venture deep beneath our cellar into the subterranean artesian well. Our collection of artifacts, curiosities, and breweriana is displayed with original photos from the property dating back to the mid-1800s. ![]() The tour begins in the old cellar where guests learn about the early immigrant brewmaster, John Bielfeldt who started brewing on the property in the 1850’s. These walls have endured everything from a tornado in 1901 to government raids throughout prohibition. ![]() has taken the building’s rich history of malt fermentation a step further by distilling American Single Malt whisky and other craft spirits known as Dead Drop Spirits. *Please note that all tour tickets must be purchased online in advance.īuilt in 1857, our historic 20,000-sf structure is Illinois’ oldest standing brewery. The Saturday tour offers an in-depth look at both the distilling process and the building’s history ~ while the Sunday tour focuses largely on the building’s and the surrounding area’s rich and fabled history. is pleased to announce the addition of a special NEW Sunday tour!
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