Author: Vendome Copper

By Distillery Trail (April 13, 2018) The new distillery will start out producing around 20,000 barrels of bourbon a year with the ability to increase to 50,000 in the future. Click here to read all about the Grand Opening on Distillery Trail.

Moonshine University’s new program, My Craft Distillery program, allows you to make your own barrel of bourbon on their Vendome equipment from start to finish under expert guidance.  There is a lot more involved than just a barrel of bourbon.You can read all about it on the Courier Journal.  

Durham’s new craft distilleries should get a lift from shifting state liquor laws Peer through the window of a former auto mechanic’s shop on Washington Street near downtown Durham, and you may be surprised by what you see. A large, gleaming, customized copper still dominates the room. Beside it sits a smaller glass contraption called…

Illinois’s first farm distillery controls production from seed to spirit Just off Keslinger Road in DeKalb, Illinois, is a tiny stone and timber building constructed from the remains of a turn-of-the-century dairy barn that once stood nearby. In the 1960s, the cows gone, it functioned as a picnic shelter and sleeping porch for the men…

Oakland Gets Its First Whiskey Distillery Since Prohibition It’s sweltering hot inside this nondescript warehouse building in West Oakland, and for the fifth or sixth time in the past twenty minutes, Daniel Wright hands me a glass tumbler full of freshly distilled brandy and asks me what I think. What I’m thinking about, really, is…

The boutique booze boom in Washington With more than 100 small distilleries opening in the last six years, Washington is leading the “farm-to-tumbler” movement. By Tan Vinh Seattle Times staff reporter Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/ It’s a safe bet that few would stare at the rain and mist off the harbor of Hoquiam and think, “This feels a…