Bully Boy Distillers

Excellent tour! The girl was super knowledgeable and her cheery attitude complemented the tour. I loved the drinks and we bought two bottles and coasters. We would love to visit again! Great job!

The tour and tasting made for a short event to do but I wasn’t terribly impressed with the product. It isn’t a large distillery but the tour guide was friendly and explained the distillation process well enough. If you’re in the area or just need a quick experience to do before a night out, this will work well enough.

did the tour and tasting this past Saturday and I must say I really enjoyed it. Our host for the tour was Alex and she was terrific, very knowledgeable and enthusiastic. I saw this place on Chronicle a few months ago and wanted to get by, I’m a big fan of supporting local businesses. Great back round story a couple of brothers getting into business and producing spirits. So while I’m not a huge fan of whiskey I will say their product was pleasing to my palate. The place isn’t very big, they are moving to a bigger facility, but interesting to see this in it’s start up state. I think they’ve been in operation just over 6 years, and they are selling out all that they produce and good for them. Along with whiskey they do a golden rum (my favorite), a white rum, a mixed old fashion and a couple other items, all to my liking. I would also add they don’t skimp on the samples. They also have product to buy after the tour which was good and we certainly took advantage of that. So I’m certainly happy to recommend this if you’re interested in supporting local business, seeing how distilleries work and drinking a good whiskey, this is a slam dunk… Keep up the good work Alex.

The best local distillery in the Boston area! Super small and quirky — you’ll definitely feel like you’re getting an authentic experience. Great samples to taste (with a heavy pour to boot) of whiskey, rum, gin, and a few other offerings (including a recent foray into pre-​mixed cocktails). Definitely a great spot to visit if a) you like supporting great local companies, and/​or b) you love well-​made, affordable booze. Personally, I use their aged whiskey for my Manhattans these days (a nice in-​between for those that find Rye to bland and Bourbon too sweet).

It was a great experience. Very flexible, very informal, but very fun! The tour guide was AWESOME!!!

I took the tour of this distillery with a few friends on my birthday, and it was really fun! I was surprised at how small the operation is and how much they do by hand. The tour is informative and enjoyable, and the beverages are excellent.

Came here on a Saturday for the 2:30pm tour, which we bought a Groupon for ($ 10 for 2 people) and reserved a spot on the Bully Boy website. Our tour guide, Alex, was extremely knowledgeable, friendly, and fun. It was great to hear the story of this local distillery, and to taste all of their products after seeing how they are made in this cool warehouse space!

Bully Boy’s is a local brewery making Whisky, Vodka and Rum. The name comes from a horse owned by the two brother’s grandfather or great grandfather (I blame the whisky fruit punch at the beginning of the tour for this lapse in memory). The fruit punch whisky was good!
When you arrive it’s an unassuming small batch brewery. All of their brewery products are sourced locally from the family farm in Stoughton. The distillery tour is about 30 minutes then you sample the brews.
I’m not a whisky girl but I stepped right up. Bought my friend the fruit punch whisky, another the Vodka and myself a whisky for the hot toddy needs that have plagued me these last few weeks.
The tour guide was a stand up comedian but I don’t think he really liked questions it was obvious he just wanted to do his job and be done. The crowd was older and not obnoxious like the previous crowd had been. So all be said and done I’ve sampled the local goods, supported two brother’s in their local endeavor and got a free t-​shirt to boot. The bottles all were $ 10.
So don’t let the name fool you. Bully was the horse from their family farm they road in on and the whiskey is the byproduct.
Enjoy!

The tour and tasting is $ 10 a person, but you can often get groupons for a discounted rate. If you are driving there, you will have to park in the street. The street parking is free so it is not a big deal. One thing to be aware of is that the building looks like a warehouse and is not marked that well. Honestly, the neighborhood will make you feel like you’re in the wrong place. The GPS sends you to the right place, but the only sign is on the door.
When you get in, the room is bright and nice… Stark contrast to the outside. We went on a weekend tour on a Sunday afternoon and there were 8 people total. The tour and tasting was pretty informal. Started with a couple videos about the distillery and its founders, then a tasting. We tried a vodka, white rum, did the tour, then tried the old fashioned, the godfather, whiskey, and dark rum.
I really liked our tour guide, but he didn’t work there full time. This is just a weekend gig for him. Because of that, he wasn’t able to answer all of our questions or talk about the business as well. Maybe we should have gone on a weekday when it is more likely to see the founders. Regardless, he was funny and we had a good time. We bought a ton of booze after it was over, so he did his job :)

Great place to check out! The tour itself was very short and quite light on information, but they are doing really interesting craft spirits at Bully Boy and trying the variety of them was great. I would go back.

I’ve been here twice now and both times it was a great experience. I liked this place so much that I got a group of friends to come with me yesterday and it seems that everyone else enjoyed it as well.
Warning: The walk here from public trans may not be the best walk you’ve taken in Boston. The distillery is located within the «New Market» warehouse district. This means dirty streets, not many people walking around, shady looking warehouses. In fact, I would never walk here on my own. Also, the Bully Boy distillery warehouse isn’t very well marked, but it’s across the street from a auto repair shop.
Other than the location, this place is great if you have an hour to spend doing something new on a Saturday/​Sunday. When you get there, you check in with your name and they hand you a cocktail made with one of their liquors (first time I had a white whiskey summer citrusy drink and for my second visit they had a fizzy Hub Punch drink). Then you get to watch a very cheesy yet entertaining video about the founders and the history of the distillery. After that you finally get to go on a 30 min tour of the place and learn about the distilling process of each of the liquor that they make. Finally when that is finished, you can try out their 5+ types of liquor and ask questions and/​or buy their merchandise.
If you have people visiting town or if you want to find something fun to do on the weekend, I recommend that you buy a groupon/​living social for Bully Boy tour and get started on day drinking at 1 pm :)

This tour was great! Charlie is the man and made sure we had an awesome time. All of the spirits are delicious! Highly recommend this tour!

Enjoyed the tour on a Sunday afternoon. Scheduling the tour after buying the travelzoo voucher was a big PITA (I think I exchanged over a dozen emails trying to get it scheduled on various weekends) but they’ve streamlined the process since my first attempts at scheduling. But still, given the difficulty in scheduling I had kind low expectations, thinking that it would be good just to get it out of the way and get SOME return out of the stupid purchase I’d made. It was really nice to be wrong about the purchase being stupid! The tour was a lot of fun. Good jokes, willingness to answer questions or say «I don’t know», and started out and ended with drinks. And despite the difficulty in actually booking a tour I’d experienced (again: the process for booking a tour seems to have been improved substantially in the mean time), it did actually seem as though they were happy to have all of us there for the tour.
The tastings of the main line of spirits at the end were all straight, and we didn’t really like them in that style. We did enjoy the mixed Hub Punch drink enough to pick up a bottle of that, and probably would try a mixed drink at a bar.

We got a Groupon for two for the tour, and it was so much fun! Best Alky tour yet in Boston :-)

Great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
I bought the punch, but really liked the whiskey as well (I’m not a big rum or vodka drinker– excited that they are working on a gin!).
Tour and videos combined are maybe a half hour or less before you get to the tasting, which is perfect — and you get punch at the beginning too.
Cute merchandise– friends bought tshirts and I got a «You can’t root for New England with whiskey from Tennessee» football poster.
None if it is cheap, but totally worth it to me to support a small local business!
Booking a tour would make a great gift for pretty much anyone 21+.

Drive here! We walked and since the sidewalks were covered in snow we had to go into the street. People really wanted to run us over.
The warehouse is unmarked because the area is not safe so my bf and I weren’t even sure if we came to the right place for our tour. The door was locked because we came early but were let in as soon as we called.
The tour was pretty average because the place is so small. Our tour guide was pretty blah but we did have some spirited attendees (who should have given the tour instead). I’m pretty used to funny tour guides due to all the other breweries around Boston.
Anyways I love Bully Boy vodka and MIT has had them come to events so I’ve tasted all their spirits before. It’s a fun place to come and definitely good quality :).
Wish the owners gave tours!

Dipping into Boston spirits history, you will discover that the region had many distilleries in & around the city. When a buddy of mine mentioned that he was doing work for a small upstart in Dorchester, I was quite intrigued. Having their products at local watering holes gave me a good sense of the commitment to quality these brothers had to the craft. So when I was able to grab a few discounted tour tickets I was more than delighted. It is true that the location is a bit far from public transportation & I would recommend a designated driver or Über if you must drive because on our hour long tour of this small facility the highlight is definitely the tasting. After sampling all of their current products & a bonus Hub Punch cocktail the afternoon gets a bit happier. I was quite surprised how many ventured out on a December afternoon to a non-​discript warehouse in the Dorchester. The high quality product is the superstar here plus they have some unique items you can add to your bar collection. I am happy to have such dedicated craftsmen in my city & now they have started a revolution to a grand old tradition. Come for the tasting & leave with some really good locally made booze your grandfather would be proud to drink. Good job guys!!!

Do a tasting now! We thought it was only a whiskey tasting but it is SO much more.
Vodka, whiskey, rum, and their newly launched punch. This punch is going to be a runaway hit — they ran out during today’s tasting.
So fulfilling to see a local business that supports local agriculture as much as possible. (Check out the happy cows!) psyched to have found such a divine whiskey from such a great company.
Well done Will and Dave. Touch the bottles all you like!

We showed up late so we missed the video but the tour was very informative. Until my friend who was a chemistry major said he was using the wrong words and if he’s right we’re going to go blind, or something along those lines. I couldn’t really follow anyway, and the guy who does the tour isn’t the one who makes it, so I’m sure he just misspoke.
Samples! Tshirts! Posters that are so true to my area of dot (if we’re not at a packie around the corner, try around another corner). I’d do it again for sure.

Looking to support local businesses while also tasting and buying some pretty awesome Boston made booze? Look no further than this randomly located Bully Boy Distillers location!
For $ 10 a person, you get a tour which started out for us at 11:00am and what better way to start it out than with a morning cocktail? Yup, fine by me! I knew at that moment that this tour and visit was going to be awesome and it was. It is definitely a hole in the wall type of distillery, but we all learned a ton on our tour of their small facility about their process in making their rum and whiskey and vodka. Our tour was led by one of three total employees that this place has (this guy being not one of the two brothers who founded the place but their first full-​time hire!) and he was awesome. Funny, easy to talk to, loved answering our questions, and just seemed like a genuinely fun guy to hang out with.
If you are looking for a fancy tasting room like at Harpoon, this is not the tour for you, since it is a bit messy inside, but you get to see their own bottling and labeling process, and it just feels so homey! Then of course the tour ends with tasting all 5 of their liquors and my fav was their new rum they just released! Not being a whiskey fan I even liked their whiskey too! So looking to support something in Boston, this booze will make you feel Boston Strong and you’ll learn a bit on the tour too!