Manhattan Scores a Shiny, New Whiskey Distillery in NoHo

The 28,000-square-foot, four-story Great Jones Distilling Company will open in August with a cocktail bar, a tasting room and more.

In late August, when the Great Jones Distilling Company opens its doors, Manhattan will have its first legal whiskey distillery since the advent of Prohibition in 1920. Aside from its stunning 500-gallon still, the 28,000-square-foot, four-story space in NoHo will feature a cocktail bar; an event area; a restaurant helmed by the chef Adam Raksin, formerly of Per Se, to open in September; and a speakeasy-style tasting room. A gift shop will sell three kinds of whiskey, aged between four and five years old: a bourbon ($39), a rye ($39) and a four-grain bourbon ($49) made with corn, malted barley, rye and wheat. The latter two will be available only at the distillery. Great Jones is the dream of Juan Domingo Beckmann, an 11th-generation spirits maker and chief executive who is the founder of Proximo Spirits, a liquor company based in Jersey City, N.J., that owns the new distillery, and whose family owns and operates the tequila giant Jose Cuervo.