Very tasty work!

Today was a good day for one last “junk run” on the 200 liter still. It once again, worked like a champ and this time, the distillate ran clean and pure, extracting over 2 gallons of 80% alcohol. At the same time, in the 30 liter still we ran a absinthe prototype. We’ll have a better idea about that in a few days.

Here are a couple of photos from today.

But the best time today was spent taking care of the cute little guy…

Santé
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Hopefully, we’ll have some very cool Season’s Greetings coming in just a couple of days as the excitement at Ridge Distillery continues to grow. This last week saw a visit from the Regional Building Inspector and the Montana State Deputy Fire Marshall. Ridge received the seal of approval from both offices with only the most minor of recommendations. I had been stressing about the visits (not having done this before) but all is very well.

We are expecting our first delivery of Grain Neutral Spirits early this week, too. Until this delivery, we have only been able to dink around with our formulas. Once we have the spirits, we should be plenty busy for a while. It’s hard not to make Christmas Spirits jokes, lemme tell ya. Santé