The Wordless Picture Thread

Pa_bon

Crazy stuff!

captainshooch

This one is at Town Branch Distillery in Kentuky

captainshooch

Notice who wrote it and who it was prescribed for. :P

punkin

Unbelievable condition for their age wouldn't you say?

Kapea

They were meant to last forever. On the whole, bureaucratic regulations never die, they just go on and on and on...

Prohibition (the 18th amendment) was the first (and only) amendment to the US Constitution to take away rights from the citizens. All the rest define the rights of citizens over the government.

Kapea

McMenamin's Cornelius Pass Roadhouse Distillery, Hillsborough, Oregon

Looking out of distiller's barn

Natural gas, direct-fired French brandy alembic used to make whiskey, rum, and pear brandy.

The middle vessel is a heat exchanger, not a thumper. You put the next batch of beer/wine in the heat exchanger and a tube containing vapor from the alembic preheats the beer/wine while vapor is cooled prior to entering the worm condenser. For scale, the top of the heat exchanger is about 12 feet high.

In this photo you can see that the vapor can be valved to bypass the heat exchanger (upper ball valve and pipe going behind heat exchanger) on its way to the worm.

You can also see the well-worn "alarm can".

Ginormous worm condenser

Parrot

Makers mark

Raw materials (unhopped beer is mashed in onsite beer brewery. Wort is transferred to fermentors in the distillery barn)

Pretty barrel heads

Rickhouse (ssshhhhh... sleeping spirits)

crozdog

nice!

Sunshine

last week ...

zymurgybob

Had dinner and a Terminator stout there last night. My son-in-law and I will do the distillery Saturday (they live about 2 miles away). I may die orgasmically in the presence of that still. Sheer lusty beauty.

Kapea

It's like looking at the engine room on Captain Nemo's Nautilus.
(before he converted to nuke).

Kapea

Something I viewed as just a time-filler on the whiskey workshop schedule turned out to be one of the coolest things we did all week. Paul Carlson and Tim Mitchel of Oregon Barrel Works came out to the McMenamin's Edgefield Distillery and showed us how to make a charred whiskey barrel. Paul gave a verbal presentation on the history of beverage vessels, and the anatomy and creation of oak barrels while Tim built the barrel. Two knowledgeable and talented coopers. (It was also rainy and colder than a witch's tit outside the distillery that day)

Tim Mitchel (left) and Paul Carlson

punkin

Very nice. Good photos too mate as usual.

Kapea

Kapea

Though often cloudy and rainy, I did get one brief glimpse of Wy'east (Mt. Hood):

Kapea

Aria Gin from Martin Ryan Distilling - from NGS to gold medal winning gin in every tasting and competition they've entered it in (yes, it is that good)
Portland Dry Gin (traditional English style dry gin).

The day we did gin tasting, and gimlets on tap at 10:00AM

Kapea

And wouldn't you know, right across the street from Martin Ryan Distilling:

Kapea

Bull Run - more than just a watershed...

Bull Run Distilling Company was moving to larger digs. I can't imagine why.

I offered to move these two to my carry-on baggage...

Sunshine

Kapea

House Spirits makes an American Single Malt Whiskey - Westward
They KNOW what they are doing!

Ion exchange demineralization:

punkin

Smaug

CothermanDistilling

ok, her face is pretty, now turn her around so we can see the business end ;-)

Smaug

1/2" thread pattern.

4" long probe

Kapea

Rolling River Spirits is a family operation. The son, Tim Rickard is a master fabricator (and talented artist as well). Tim built the Rolling River distilling equipment, including the hand-hammered copper alembics.

And there was this really interesting evergreen growing right outside their front door. I've never seen anything like it:

Smaug

Looks like the humper thumper in one of those pics

Kapea

Or maybe a SS whiskey hat?
That's their pilot still for new product development.

Kapea

Kapea

Kapea

Pear harvest was in! Pear brandy wash in open fermenters at high krausen everywhere!

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge...

Smaug

I guess they got rid of their Dash?