8 Ordway Lane · North Creek
Opening winter 2026Ski Bowl Distillery
A tasting room and bottle shop in a rebuilt barn at 8 Ordway Lane — at the top of Main Street, where the road comes in from the mountain.
We're making schnapps, because schnapps is what you actually want after a cold day and nobody within two hours is making it. One clean base spirit, then the flavours the Adirondacks give up — raspberry, apple, grape. Small runs, poured across a tasting counter built out of the old railroad, and taken home in a bottle.
Rendering — the retail tasting room, 8 Ordway Lane
What we're building
A tasting counter built out of the old railroad.
The Delaware & Hudson ran the first Snow Train into this village on March 4th, 1934 — Schenectady to North Creek, a dollar fifty, nearly four hundred skiers. Its shield is going into the back of the tasting counter, yellow and blue under lacquer, and the boards above it will run arrivals that stopped arriving eighty years ago.
- Tasting room and retail — the front of the barn, opening onto the street. Tastings and bottles to take home; this is a shop, not a bar.
- Working distillery — the production floor behind it, visible from the bar.
- Warming hut across the courtyard at 6 Ordway — snacks, hot drinks, and somewhere to put your gloves.
- Thursday to Sunday through the season — Thanksgiving weekend through Presidents' Week, weather permitting into early March.
Opening list
First pour, first to know.
We'll email you once — when there's a date. That's the whole list.
8 Ordway Lane, North Creek, NY 12853 · five minutes from Gore Mountain.