We had a great time on Sunday January 29th presenting the first one day distilling school. We had 28 folks from all over the country come to Little Rock to learn about distilling. We covered topics like the permitting process to bottling and packaging. Also we had a live demonstration of mashing a whiskey mash [...]

Well, I’m finally getting around to jotting down my notes from WhiskyFest Chicago.

This was my first trip to Chicago since our product went on sale there, so it was great to be able to meet the folks we’ve been working with.

Thursday night was the “world of whiskeys” event at Binny’s Lincoln Park. [...]

As I’m sure you’re probably aware, our first batch wasn’t an award winner. We produce our products in small batches and it has taken time to hone in our craft and start producing really good stuff. Luckily, we got it figured out just in time for competition season.

The first competition we entered was [...]

I haven’t blogged in quite a while, it’s been crazy around here during the holidays. It’s truly hard to believe that 2010 is almost over… this time last year I was working on getting bids from contractors to build the distillery and by July we were up and running and here I sit in the [...]

Wow… this is really cool… check out the magazine: Today’s Man

Bill Owens passed through Arkansas yesterday and today as a part of his world tour. He’s working on a book about cooperages and today I took him down to Hot Springs to meet Jay Gibbs at Gibbs Brothers Cooperage.

Here’s a picture of the three of us:

Jay Gibbs, [...]

I sent a bottle of our batch 2 gin in to bevx.com for review a couple of weeks ago… and the results are in… Yesterday the review was posted – 4 stars – “excellent”!!

You can checkout the review here.

Today I met Dr. David McCoy, “the Scotch Doc” and got to see his amazing collection of whiskey memorabilia and taste some prohibition era prescription whiskey. This bottle was distilled in 1917 and bottled in 1932. The only way to get whiskey legally during prohibition was by prescription. The Scotch Doc even has an [...]

Had a great crew on Sunday that helped bottle our second batch of Gin. We packed 54 cases or 324 bottles in just over an hour!