About
Sugar Sand Distillery
Don Davies has experience in fertilizer operations, production, transportation, and purchasing, experience as a bar and restaurant owner and experience with the processes of packaging and marketing retail products. A native Floridian and Lake Placid resident, Don bring a lifetime of unique experience and business knowledge to the growing craft distillery industry in Florida.
We invite you to come tour the distillery, taste our spirits and participate in our farm operations. A one of a kind Florida agritourism operation, Sugar Sand Distillery stands to be a unique destination perfect for everyone.
Opened in April 2018, Sugar Sand Distillery is an estate-grown sugarcane farm distillery. Nestled in the middle of a 10-acre sugar cane farm, Sugar Sand Distillery is a true farm-to-bottle operation producing small-batch rum, whiskey, vodka, limoncello and moonshine. The distillery was born from a desire to incorporate the love of farming with the love of producing true handcrafted spirits.
Originally conceived in 2017, founder Don Davies began experimenting with the processes of making mash and home distilling with sugarcane. As friends and family raved and then began requesting refills, Don discovered a deepening love for the process and, of course, the finished product. As he began researching craft distilleries and the growing market for such operations, the dream of Sugar Sand Distillery was born.
