Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 10/21/25

Our time at the Farm

John and I joined a few fellow whiskey enthusiasts at Doc Brown Farm out in Senoia, Ga in Coweta County a couple of weekends ago! This women-owned business is truly one-of-a-kind! They are known as farm to barrel craft whiskey distillers and we got to explore their unique and detailed process, a tour of the farm, tastings and a 3-course dinner, cocktails, and chats by the fire. It was a weekend to remember.

Our time with Amy, Paige and their family started with a tour of the farm! We learned more about whiskey and the process than I ever imagined. Then, we did a whiskey meditation with Sailor who taught us how to smell the whiskey and suggested notes for us to taste! It was eye opening! We got a delicious apple cider cocktail and did a tasting. We tasted several of their available products like southern ember, Uncle bogue, honey bourbon, hot honey bourbon, butter pecan bourbon, peach bourbon. More on their products below.

After our tasting, we had a cocktail hour with the best pumpkin old fashioned in a pumpkin! Then, we dined Al fresco as the sun set, and the stars came out! The meal consisted of a 3-course by Your Chef to Go! First course was a delicious fall salad, followed by sensational short rib and root vegetables, and mango panna cotta for dessert. After our dinner, we chatted as a group around the fire and sipped on a s’more me cocktail featuring Doc Brown’s cream bourbon product!

Doc Brown Process

What is farm to barrel craft whiskey? Doc Brown! We got a deep dive into their unique, detailed process and it all starts with Doc Brown growing their own Jimmy red corn right on their property! They use bat boxes with 250 bats each instead of pesticides. They have several bee colonies for their honey, as well as a garden to grown vegetables like their peppers for their hot honey! Once the corn is ready at the right humidity (14% or so) they harvest and coordinate with their distillery on delivery.

They literally drive a box truck of their corn up to their distillery in Chamblee, Distillery of Modern Art. They wanted us to see the process in its entirety, so we got to tour their facility! In beautiful facility that mixes art and spirits, we started in the tasting room and moved to the art gallery to the bottling room. We see where the corn is stored and prepared and then put into barrels. It usually 2-3 weeks for the process from harvest to barrel. A lot of work goes into it!

Doc Brown Products:

Something I learned was to use one nostril to smell the bourbon before tasting. Here was two from their tasting. Southern ember is their third bourbon. It is finished with pecan barrels with notes of caramel and chocolate. It is not on the market yet. Uncle bogue is barreled in wolf mountain winery red, French oak, barrels and cut with 8-year OZ Tyler. You can literally taste the red wine. Pro tip for whiskey and bourbon tastings is to add water to your bourbon! It causes blooms of flavor and helps proof it down to mitigate the burn.

Day Swigger series from the tasting included Honey bourbon using the honey from the bees on property. It has real honey, that is floral and pairs well with the bourbon. Their Peach bourbon is made with real peach puree from DOMA and smells and tastes like eating a peach! It is not on the market yet, though. As for the Butter pecan, it is made from real pecan extract and drinks like a cocktail. It really does smell and taste like buttery pecan. But the best of them all is the Hot honey bourbon. you can SMELL the peppers in it! It is made with the peppers, honey and whiskey bourbon all go into the barrel and it comes out spicy pepper up front and floral honey on the back.

When we got to DOMA, we also had a tasting of some of the products in the works like their Effie and Effie from Tx. One was barreled here and one in Texas and the one in Texas is very interesting! It is more briny and heavy from the humidity. The one barreled here is sweeter to me. My favorite of the products we tasted at DOMA is the Resurrection Red. It was hard to drink up front, but after the initial spice up front it mellows into a delightful, sweet vanilla finish.

The future happenings at Doc Brown:

DOMA soon to market tasting: none of these are on the market yet:
Ressurgens Red is spicy up front with a sweet vanilla finish. My fave of these.
Effie and Effie TX: interestingly the Texas barrel one is more briny and heavy from the humidity! 👀

Go to their website to find out where to purchase the products, they are in select bottle shops: Doc Brown Farm & Distillers – Georgia’s only seed-to-still distillery.. They are planning a grand opening and tasting room 2026. Farm tours will start back in 2026 as well!

Fun facts:

Paige: she built the cutest smoke house outside with her father before he passed called, Hooptie Hooch. They had a naming contest to name it too!

Amy: she used to own a pecan farm down in Cordele, GA, and is a from a farming family.