Stateside Vodka
Federal Distilling, Stateside Brands LLC — Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
An online naming contest drew more than 2,000 suggestions for the vodka; Stateside won the survey, Billy Penn reported. Read the brand history
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| Label Name | Spirit Type | Status | Approval Date | Producer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Stateside Vodka VODKA 80-89 PROOF | Vodka 80-89 Proof | Approved | 2026-04-30 | Stateside Brands LLC |
 | Stateside Vodka Urbancraft VODKA 80-89 PROOF | Vodka 80-89 Proof | Approved | 2025-02-20 | Federal Distilling, Stateside Brands LLC |
 | Stateside Vodka Urbancraft VODKA 80-89 PROOF | Vodka 80-89 Proof | Approved | 2024-07-01 | Federal Distilling, Sweet Grace Distilling Co., LLC |
 | Stateside Vodka The Year VODKA 80-89 PROOF | Vodka 80-89 Proof | Approved | 2024-06-24 | Federal Distilling, Sweet Grace Distilling Co., LLC |
 | Stateside Vodka Urbancraft VODKA | Vodka | Approved | 2020-01-13 | Federal Distilling, Sweet Grace Distilling Co., LLC |
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Stateside Vodka at a Glance
Stateside Vodka has 5 distinct products with 13 total TTB label approvals, including Vodka, Vodka 80-89 Proof. Labels approved between 2020-01-13 and 2026-04-30. Label origins on file: Pennsylvania.
At a Glance data sourced from public TTB records.
Stateside Vodka
Stateside Vodka grew out of basement experiments by brothers Matt and Bryan Quigley, conducted without their parents knowing, Billy Penn reported in 2015. Matt had run restaurants, while his younger brother Bryan worked as a securities trader.
How Stateside Vodka reached stores
Matt sent vodka samples to distilleries while looking for an apprenticeship and found work at a distillery run by Michigan State University, paid in experience rather than money, according to Billy Penn. He later spent more than a year consulting on Pravda vodka and other products for Philadelphia liquor company Charles Jacquin. During that work he refined an aeration method, deciding oxygen worked best, the report said.
By September 2015, Stateside had a retail launch planned: select Pennsylvania Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores were due to stock it on October 15, Billy Penn reported. In January 2016, 6abc reported that the brothers used a custom German still named Big Country and bottled 2,500 bottles at parties held every few weeks.
Corn, water, and oxygen
PA Eats described Stateside's ingredients as Missouri-grown GMO-free corn and mineral-enriched water in January 2016. Its account starts with raw alcohol bought from a distributor: water is added, the liquid is distilled, and oxygen aeration follows, without added sugar.
Billy Penn reported up to twelve distillation passes in 2015. NEXTpittsburgh reported seven in 2018, as did Philadelphia magazine in 2025. The vodka was kosher-certified and gluten-free, according to the 2018 NEXTpittsburgh report.
A bar in Kensington and a move into cans
The Federal Distilling Room was open at 1700 North Hancock Street in Kensington by August 2016, when Philadelphia magazine reported its opening. The bar connected to the distillery and served its flagship Stateside Vodka.
By August 2018, Stateside was sold in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, according to NEXTpittsburgh. The business later entered ready-to-drink cocktails with canned vodka sodas in 2021, followed by Surfside in early 2022, Philadelphia magazine reported in 2025. That feature described Surfside as vodka with tea and lemonade flavors, at 4.5 percent alcohol by volume, distinct from the bottled vodka.
Explore the TTB label records for Stateside Vodka on this page.
Sources
- Billy Penn at WHYY. "How Kensington's Federal Distilling grew from a Breaking Bad basement lab to your favorite craft vodka". 2015-09-11. https://billypenn.com/2015/09/11/how-kensingtons-federal-distilling-grew-from-a-breaking-bad-basement-lab-to-your-favorite-craft-vodka/
- PA Eats. "Stateside Vodka: From Farm to Flask in Philly". 2016-01-11. https://www.paeats.org/news/2016/stateside-vodka-from-farm-to-flask-in-philly/
- 6abc Philadelphia (WPVI). "FYI Philly: Local brothers open craft distillery in Kensington". 2016-01-14. https://6abc.com/post/philly-brothers-open-craft-distillery-in-kensington/1157633/
- NEXTpittsburgh. "Stateside Urbancraft Vodka showroom opens for sampling in Lawrenceville, with bar service on the horizon". 2018-08-22. https://nextpittsburgh.com/city-design/stateside-urbancraft-vodka-showroom-opens-for-sampling-in-lawrenceville-with-bar-service-on-the-horizon/
- Philadelphia magazine (Foobooz). "Federal Distilling Room Now Open in Kensington". 2016-08-16. https://www.phillymag.com/restaurants/2016/08/16/federal-distilling-room-now-open-in-kensington/
- Philadelphia magazine. "How Surfside Took Over the Cocktail World". 2025-05-16. https://www.phillymag.com/restaurants/2025/05/16/surfside-tea/
- TTB Public COLA Registry via buy.vodka-v3 src/data (build 2026-11-03, origin/main 38b286fa). "TTB COLA approvals for brand_slug stateside-vodka in the BUY.VODKA data snapshot (read-only local query)". 2026-11-03. local:buy.vodka-v3 src/data/labels.json (brand_slug stateside-vodka)
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