Posted on December 18, 2015 – By Maggie Kimberl It’s common knowledge at this point that Louisville, Kentucky, is the center of the bourbon universe. The city is at the heart of Kentucky’s most famous industry, and everything you need to make bourbon can be produced within the city limits. One such business at the heart of the…
…Now we return to Leopold Brothers and Todd Leopold, who has — along with the folks at Louisville’s Vendome Copper and Brass — designed and built a production scale chamber still. It is copper, not wood, stands about 20 feet high, and has four chambers. Innovation like this, by the way, is what it means to…
WhiskyCast Episode 562: November 14, 2015 – Start at the 20 minute mark to hear about Boone County Distilling Co.
At Tamworth Distilling & Mercantile, which opened earlier this year on the grounds of a dilapidated New Hampshire inn, high-proof grain alcohol embodies the anachronistic, utilitarian charm of something you might have once found at a general store — or today, at the Vermont Country Store. According to its label — printed with, according to…
The State of Minnesota Whiskey NOVEMBER 17, 2015 BY LOREN GREEN The Minnesota craft-distilling scene is looking to find its place in the geography of whiskey. With a handful of distilleries now past that two-year mark, it’s nearing the time for many to make the jump from barrel to bottle and start bringing aged spirits…
Why you should be drinking more American brandy. by Osayi Endolyn, October 5, 2015 …As for Copper & Kings, the Herons opted to build their Butchertown distillery in the heart of bourbon country, where necessities were already in place—fourth generation Kentucky distiller and degree-holding expert in horticulture and viticulture Brandon O’Daniel; legendary copper pot still manufacturer Vendome (that…
Published on Oct 28, 2015 John O’Mara & Bill Karlson talk about opening a craft distillery in Manassas, VA where they produce white whiskey, gin, and bourbon. KO Distilling has fascinating stories behind their brand and is now open for tours.
The two entrepreneurs are childhood friends who grew up in the same remote section of Humboldt County, and they’re the proprietors of Wright & Brown Distilling, a new distillery that they say is the first one to open in Oakland in nearly a century. Even though their still was producing brandy — a relatively low-risk…
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…