Auchentoshan Triple Stills (part 1)

Auchentoshan Mashing Process

Templton Rye IA - Distillery Tour

Yahara Bay WI - Deaths Door

Virginia Lightning Youtube

Virginia Lightning Youtube

Tuthilltown on Youtube

HD How Whisky is Made with Charles MacLean

How Stuff Works - Jack Daniels Whiskey

Dancing Pines Distillery

In good spirits: Loveland distillery handcrafts liquors - reporterherald.com

Federal License timeline thread: ADI Forums

http://adiforums.com/index.php?showtopic=494

Roundhouse Spirits & 303 Distilleries

Roundhouse and 303

Ted Palmer of Roundhouse 

"My 10L is on tour..." says Ted who gave a generous amount of time to us on a tour through his 4000 sq ft facility.

Sour Mash Manifesto � Whistle Pig Rye review

WhistlePig Rye Whiskey (10 Year Old), 50% abv (100 Proof), $70/bottle
Sour Mash Manifesto Whiskey reviews

I think this dude's concealing his drunkedness well.

Grants for "Spiritual?" Developments in the Agricultural Sector - hmm...

Feasibility Study for an Apple Processing Plant in New Glarus

Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
Division of Marketing
Agricultural Development & Diversification Program (ADD)
1999 Grant Project Final Report

Financial Situation/Needs
An Agricultural Development and Diversification Grant of $15,000 in FY 1999-2000 was awarded to Destination
Development, Inc. by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection to explore the feasibility of producing a brandy made from Wisconsin apples. An in-kind match of $42,000 was committed to the project by Destination Development. Bringing the total investment (capital and "sweat equity") to-date in the project to approximately $57,000.

Distilling spirits and new ideas; Bendistillery hopes to turn a farm operation into a tourist destination | | The Bulletin

Distilling spirits and new ideas; Bendistillery hopes to turn a farm operation into a tourist destination | | The Bulletin

:: The Copper Fox Distillery :: Home of Wasmund's Whisky

:: The Copper Fox Distillery :: Home of Wasmund's Whisky


3 people. Smoked fruitwood chip aged (patent pending claims). Single barrel batches. It seems Mr. Wasmund went to Scotland to learn about the origination of Whisky (no 'e') and got himself a fancy internship. He had some good ideas about embedding more flavor profile into a product that included fruitwood but also characteristics of peat like Scotch. Instead of using a peated smoke, the idea was to use smoke from the fruitwood - similar to that which is done to smoke a nice pork roast. One of the products is Copper Fox Rye Whisky.

Our latest way of "shaking up" the whisky world. A remarkable rye whisky made with an extraordinarily generous amount of our smoked malt. The mash bill is 2/3 Virginia rye and 1/3 Virginia Thoroughbred hand-malted barley—kiln dried with apple wood and cherry wood smoke.

Double pot-stilled to between 150 and 160 proof and aged with a progressive series of new and used apple wood and oak chips inside used bourbon barrels. Our innovative aging process results in a truly unique rye whisky that is savory and complex with the characteristic Wasmund's finish.

Dry Fly Distilling School

Dry Fly


For $1500, you can get a Two Day Basic distillation class that can be tailored to your specific needs, but is primarily focussed on:

• Grain Handling and Mash Preparation
• Fermentation
• Stripping runs
• Rectification
• Finish distillation

A One Week Complete distillery operational class is available for $3500. Again, it can be tailored to specific needs but includes the following:

• Raw material selection and milling
• Wash House operations including mashing, enzyme use, mash QC and testing, efficiency evaluation
• Fermentation operations including yeast preparation and fermentation management and evaluation,
• Stripping runs on the 450 liter CARL stripping still including still operation, cooling and steam management, and sensory evaluation.
• Finishing still operation including rectification, Alembic distillation, fraction cuts, and efficiency evaluation.
• Filtering Operations
• Gauging and TTB reporting procedures
• Product finishing
• Product packaging operations
• Whiskey storage and barrel options
• Tasting room operation
• Sales and Marketing small production spirits
• Business Planning

Kinda pricey. Doesn't include all meals, transportation, or lodging but you can view functional Whiskey and Vodka distillation in on week with hands on experience while getting a bit of schooling on operational support. Pretty cool.

Class costs do not include transportation, lodging, meals (we provide lunch only), or incidentals. Dry Fly will work with participants on securing suitable accommodations. All classes will be done on an individual basis. Should two participant wish to take the class together, the second participant will pay 50% of the full class price. No more than two participants per class. Classes require a 50% deposit to secure a date. The remainder of the class fee is due prior to the start of the class at the distillery.

No business plan for spirits in 06

Micro-distillers adding spirit to high-end hooch - East Bay Business Times

"Bill Owens of American Distiller, a professional group devoted to the advancement of craft distilling, says there are 77 micro-distilleries producing 0.5 percent of all U.S. spirits. Three years ago, when Owens started American Distiller, there were 52.

'For most people, this is a second business,' said Owens. 'Very few people are doing this full time to pay their rent. The banker types drop out real quick. Because they think it's like Silicon Valley and they want to get rich quick. We're talking about lifestyle, about pride in craftsmanship.'

Owens says he answers phone calls every day from people interested in starting a micro-distillery.

'Nothing is easy in this business,' he said. 'I've never seen a business plan for this industry, but that will happen in time. It's part of the industry maturing.'

Many in the micro-spirit industry see larger profits on the horizon as the evolving sophisticated tastes of consumers grow with the maturing industry. Owens predicts the market could sustain up to 400 micro-distilleries."

Small Business and Franchise Success Stories: Dry Fly Distilling - True Small Business Irony - Guidant Financial Group, Inc.

Small Business and Franchise Success Stories: Dry Fly Distilling - True Small Business Irony - Guidant Financial Group, Inc.

Where did their small business dreams start?

“I think the business sense you get working for a large corporation is always a good experience,” Don explains. “I think what it does is give you the motivation to get the [heck] out. After awhile my thought process was that if at the end of the day everything sucks, it’s because I made it suck. But if everything’s great, it’s because I made it great. The only way to accomplish that is to start your own business.”

Yep.

Make Room at the Bar - Distiller Business - Entrepreneur.com

Todd Leopold making Absinthe

Founded in Michigan as a brewpub and now exclusively a distillery, Leopold Bros. is part of a growing micro-distillery movement in the U.S. The number of small-batch distilleries has more than doubled in just a few years, from fewer than 80 in 2006 to 165 in 2009, says Bill Owens, founder of the American Distilling Institute. Boutique, artisan, craft, small-batch, micro--whatever the moniker--these independent, entrepreneurial distillers are fueling a "renaissance in American spirit-making," Owens says.