birmingham’s first legal distillery*

In 2016, Redmont Vodka medaled at the Washington Cup Spirits Competition. The following year, Redmont Distilling Co won big at the 2017 New York International Spirits competition, taking home awards in both the Vodka and Gin categories and was named Best Distillery in Alabama. Most recently, Redmont Vodka won a Gold medal at the USA Spirits Rating competition.

Fast forward two years, Redmont Distilling Co is still producing the same great quality spirits, but with a refreshed look, new location, and bigger team.

We were excited to welcome Alabama native, Charles Barkley, as a majority owner in August 2019. Charles has wanted to invest in a business in his home state of Alabama for a long time. Redmont Distilling Co presented a great opportunity for him to be a part of the Birmingham business community.

Opening the doors to our new Avondale, Birmingham distillery, we are now able to produce more vodka for more of our friends to enjoy.

So look for us on the shelves of your local ABC store or drop by the distillery to pick up a bottle and taste the difference for yourself.

Redmont Distillery takes its name from Birmingham's Red Mountain, the source of iron ore that was formed more than 400 million years ago. Along with limestone and coal, that red ore was one of three elements necessary to make iron, and the future site of Birmingham was the only place in the world where all three were found in such proximate abundance — a miracle of geological happenstance that led to the founding of the city in 1871. 

In 1904, the city fathers commissioned a statue of Vulcan, the roman god of fire and the forge, as a symbol of Birmingham's industrial might. Today, Vulcan — the world’s largest cast iron statue — overlooks the city from atop Red Mountain. Redmont Distillery is proud to pay tribute to Birmingham's history by featuring an image of Vulcan that adorns the front of each bottle we produce. 

Founded in 2015, we began distilling our Redmont Vodka and Vulcan Gin locally in small batches at our Birmingham distillery, which also happens to be the first legal distillery in Birmingham since prohibition. We distill our vodka eight times, giving it a 100% neutral taste. Our vodka hit the shelves in early 2016 and right off the bat, people could taste the difference.