1911 Premium VodkaIn 1911, George Skiff and Andrew Beak founded a 100 acre apple orchard in New York's Hudson Valley. At the time, the Hudson Valley, which extends from New York City northward through Albany, was home to thousands of farms, hundreds of which distilled the excess fruits and grains they harvested into spirits. As a result of the onset of Prohibition, however, these farmers were forced to abandon their stills. Today, Marshall Skiff, a third generation