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…
Published on Mar 21, 2013 Organic Ocean Vodka Distillery – Kula Maui, Hawaii There’s a New Ocean Vodka Distillery on Maui! Ocean Vodka. A completely Organic Vodka with an amazingly smooth taste!
Published on Feb 4, 2013 Live Green Tennessee Season 5, Episode 1 In recent years, the art of moonshining has had a revival. Short Mountain Distillery is Tennessee’s sixth distillery making authentic small-batch, Tennessee Moonshine, Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey from organic corn grown that is stone-milled on the 300 acre Little Short Mountain
Published on Oct 9, 2013 http://BourbonBlog.com ‘s Tom Fischer interviews spirits expert and consultant Dave Pickerell at the Still On The Hill 2013, Breckenridge Colorado, They talk about craft spirits and doe a Bourbon have to be made in Kentucky? Comments from Jordan Via Master Distiller of Breckenridge Distillery as well. Filmed and edited by…
Wes talks with Clay Smith about micro-distilling and samples Corsair’s twisted whiskeys made with atypical grains.
Published on Oct 10, 2012 LA’s only distillery since prohibition is Greenbar Collective, and it also produces the world’s largest collection of organic spirits, all handcrafted right here at their distillery in LA as overseen by owners Litty and Melkon.
Published on Sep 10, 2012 Short Mountain Distillery is a craft distillery making a 105 proof authentic Tennessee Moonshine on a 300 acre farm in Cannon County, Tennessee. We’re proud of our use of organic heirloom corn, natural cave spring water and mule teams to tend our fields. Our three living legends of Moonshine bring…
Vendome Brass & Copper Works has been building stills on the banks of the Ohio River in Louisville for more than 100 years. Their stills are used by many of the world’s top distillers, and the boom in craft distilling is keeping Vendome’s shop crew busier than ever. We’ll meet some of their craftsmen, as…
Published on Mar 26, 2012 This is the same rye malt mash as another of my videos. It has a blow off bucket to tell when it is finished and prevent cleaning up a mess in case of a blowover.
Published on Mar 17, 2012 http://www.smoothambler.com/ Check out our tour video and learn about our distillery here at Smooth Ambler Spirits. We are an American distillery that produces the finest small batch, hand-crafted Gin, Vodka, White Whiskey, and Bourbon Whiskey. It’s a hands-on, grain-to-glass distilling, cutting and filtering process that creates a truly remarkable drink…