May 3, 2017 @ 11:16 am
Big Rick Hardly Strictly Wine Blog
from bohemian.com
Like a slow spring, the spirit dribbles out a copper spigot into a steel drum flanked by a battery of direct-fired pot stills that run six days a week, their flamboyantly looping copper pipes feeding the drum, drop by drop.
It’s no accident that the alembic-style stills are fashioned in a distinctly Moorish style, says owner and distiller Adam Spiegel. The design is straight out of the 11th century, but more often seen in cognac production today than American whiskey making.