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Article: Spirits ofCape Ann ; Gloucester distillery brings craft approach to alcoholic beverages
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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GLOUCESTER - Beauport, Knockabout, Folly Cove. The names have
historic meaning on Cape Ann.
Beauport - "good harbor" in French - was an early, poetic name
for Gloucester. A knockabout was a type of fishing boat without a
bowsprit, designed in Essex. Folly Cove is an inlet on the Rockport
shore that lends itself to navigational errors and, by some
accounts, rum-running during Prohibition.
But the names are about to get new meanings. As in, "I'd like a
Beauport Martini, please." "Pour me a Knockabout and tonic." "Can
you make a Folly Cove and cranberry?"
In a bland industrial park just off a Route 128 rotary, Bob Ryan
and his nephew Dave Wood are running what they believe is the first ...