North Hampton family launches gin distillery in Maine
North Hampton family launches gin distillery in Maine Angeljean Chiaramida When Larry Murphy got the call from his son, Matthew, asking him to join in a new liquor distillery in Hermon, Maine, near Bangor, it gave the North Hampton father pause for thought. “To tell you the truth, I thought my son was crazy,” said Murphy, a sales specialist and Air Force veteran. “Then I started to do some research on gin and I found it’s having a resurgence. Gin is outselling vodka. We’ve come into the perfect storm. ” The result is the founding of The Devil’s Half Acre Distillery and its lim...