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ADI CRAFT WHISKEY

DISTILLING

CLASS(Hands on)

Nov 30th-Dec. 5th 2008

Location: Stillwater Spirits, 622 Second

Street Petaluma, CA

Tuition: $3,000

Contact: bill@distlling.com or call

510-886-7418

Transportation from local motels will be

provided. We will also provide lunches,

whiskey tasting and two dinners.

Course Schedule:

Sunday: November 30th

6 pm Evening reception, whiskey tasting and

dinner at Stillwater Spirits.

7 pm Begin fermentation of 70 gallon DME

(Dryed Malt Extract) wash that will be

fermented in five days. ( Friday)

Monday: December 1st

9 am Attorney Lynn Carmichael discusses how

to acquire and protect distilling licenses.

11 am Cahill Winery tour and lunch.

Wine/brandy talk by David Mahaffey.

3 pm Return to Stillwater.

Demonstration of brandy distillation, wine

from Cahill winery.

5 pm Whiskey tasting.

Tuesday: December 2nd

9 am Introduction to pot whiskey

distillation.

11 am Moylan's Brewery & Restaurant tour and

lunch.

4 pm Distilling demonstration by Don

Payne , Stillwater Spirits

owner/distiller

5 pm Whiskey vs. Scotch tasting.

Wednesday: December 3rd

9 am Don Payne, makes a 400-gallon wash

stripping run. Introduction to the disitlling

process by Michale Delevnate.

11 am Students make spirits run on a five

plate Jacob Carol column still, Each will

learning how-to run the still, making head

and tail cuts.

3 pm Discussion of flavor and barrels.

Thursday: December 4th

9 am Writing a business plan.

11 am Students continue making spirit runs.

5 pm Vodka, gin and absinth tasting

Friday: December 5

9 am Distill the 50 gallons of moonshine

wash from Monday's run.

12 pm Distilling certificate awards and

lunch.

2 pm Concluding presentations.

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  • 2 weeks later...

My 2 partners and I are interested in taking distillation courses. We are from Alaska, so airfare is expensive, and $3000 apiece is out of our price range. Do you have any recommendations for less expensive courses we can fly down for? Thanks.

Kyle Ryan

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Don and Kent from Dry Fly in Spokane may have something for you.

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My 2 partners and I are interested in taking distillation courses. We are from Alaska, so airfare is expensive, and $3000 apiece is out of our price range. Do you have any recommendations for less expensive courses we can fly down for? Thanks.

Kyle Ryan

Kyle,

We are doing classes in Spokane. Check out our web site at www.dryflydistilling.com. Info on the classes there!

Don

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  • 1 month later...

I’m also looking for some courses but in Canada…we have 0 craft distillers in Quebec!

Any recommendations for Ontario maybe?

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