Cultus Bay Distillery Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Hi. I'm Bob, the designer, builder, recipe wrangler, tax-bungler, chemist and engineer at Cultus Bay Distillery, a tiny distillery on the banks of Cultus Bay. Our DSP is now about 9 months old, and we started conventionally producing a vodka, and old gin recipe of mine, as well as a triple-potstilled single malt white whisky we've named (legitimately) poitin. On St. Paddy's day we bottled our first batch of aged poitin, proofed to 86, as an Irish whisky (actually a single-malt with an Irish name and shamrocks, hoping they'll figure it out). I'm a potstiller and brown liquor maker by nature, but for the vodka and gin base we built one of the new (to me,anyway) condenser-controlled vapor management stills, which appears to work beautifully, even in the ham-fists of an old pot-thumper like me. I've read the ADI newsletter for perhaps a year, but I never realized there was a forum. I love a good forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC-DC Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Zbob, i think you may have gone a little 'light' on the introduction. I expect most here know of you already. Welcome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3d0g Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 10 hours ago, AC-DC said: Zbob, i think you may have gone a little 'light' on the introduction. I expect most here know of you already. Welcome!! Yes, ditto! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cultus Bay Distillery Posted March 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2017 Thanks for the kind words, guys. What AC-DC and 3d0g refer to is that we've known each other for years on multiple hobbyist distillation forums. Starting with the old Yahoo Distiller and New Distiller forums (where I may still be a moderator) grown out of New Zealand home-distilling legalization, international hobby distilling forums have been a huge factor in developing and disseminating the theoretical and applied information that all of us now take for granted. Shortly after the turn of the century, there was so much awful, dangerous, and superstitious distillation misinformation running rampant, that it was seriously difficult to get good facts about our science/art. The situation was so bad that I wrote "Making Fine Spirits" (Amphora Society) just to give the beginner some trusted facts and procedures he could build on. While I can't prove it, I'm betting that most of the artisan distillers here started with information, first-, second-, or third-hand, that we hammered the BS out of in the hobby forums. Truth be known, I'm kinda proud of all of our efforts. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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