Mercantile
Everything You Need to Take the Black Forest Home
Step out of our tasting room with more than memories—leave with the tools, spirits, and wisdom to carry Old Homestead into your daily life. Our mercantile isn't a gift shop in the airport-kiosk sense, stocked with mass-produced tchotchkes stamped with our logo. It's a carefully curated collection that mirrors our distilling philosophy: heirloom quality, alchemical intention, Hoosier heritage. Here you'll find our Sunshine Spirits and Black Forest releases available by the bottle, so the flavors you discovered at the tasting bar can accompany you home.
Branded glassware—including the very tasting glasses you kept as souvenirs—lets you recreate the ritual in your own kitchen, pouring two fingers of our apple brandy into a tumbler that connects you back to Patoka Lake every time you raise it. Old Homestead and Alcohol Acres apparel turns you into a walking ambassador for the Black Forest revival, whether you're wearing a hoodie at the farmers market or a t-shirt at your backyard bonfire.
Apparel and Branded Goods: Wear Your Allegiance to the Black Forest
Old Homestead and Alcohol Acres apparel scattered through our mercantile lets you signal your tribe. T-shirts, hoodies, hats—standard distillery fare, but ours carry the weight of actual story. When you wear an Old Homestead shirt, you're not repping a corporate brand. You're declaring allegiance to pot still craft, heirloom grains, wild yeasts, and the resurrection of homestead distilling traditions that died with Prohibition. Our designs lean rustic and understated: wheat sheaves, diamond logos, copper still silhouettes on neutral tones. Nothing loud or kitschy. Clothing that fits in at a farmer's market, a brewpub, a bonfire, or a bougie cocktail bar depending on how you style it.
Glassware and Barware: Ritual Objects for Home
Our branded glassware transforms functional items into ritual objects. That tasting glass you kept as a souvenir after your ten-dollar flight? We sell more of them—rocks glasses, tumblers, Glencairn-style nosing glasses etched with our logo—so you can build a full set at home. Every time you pour a dram into one of these glasses, you're transported back: the cedar smell of the humidor, the balcony view, the taste of Sunshine Spirit Old Fashioned on your tongue, the evening that stretched longer than you planned because you weren't ready to leave. That's the power of good merch. It's not just a glass. It's a time machine, a sensory trigger that collapses distance and brings the experience flooding back. We also stock bar tools: jiggers, strainers, mixing spoons for home cocktail enthusiasts who want to recreate the drinks our bartenders crafted. Copper Moscow Mule mugs that echo the copper pot stills humming in our production room. Stainless steel tumblers for tailgates and camping trips where glass would break but you still want your whiskey in something that feels premium. You’re not just buying drinkware - you're buying continuation. The glass ensures that Old Homestead doesn't end when you check out of the hotel and drive home. It persists on your bar cart, in your camping kit, at your dinner parties where you serve guests and tell the story: "Got this at a distillery in Indiana—you've never heard of it, but let me pour you some of their sunflower seed moonshine..."