Thursday, April 30, 2009
Photos on syracuse.com
There were some photos posted on syracuse.com today that are associated with Don Cazentre's blog post from yesterday. Click here to see them.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Coverage on syracuse.com
On Monday, we spent some time with Don Cazentre who writes for the Syracuse Post-Standard. Don is preparing an article on our distillery for May. He also writes a blog where he mentioned our distillery and the upcoming article. Click here to read his post.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Malt Kiln Destroyed by Fire
Through this blog, we've shared a lot of the exciting milestones in our quest to start Finger Lakes Distilling over the past year or so. As with any business, we've also had our rough spots and this weekend marked one of those moments.
Many of you may have noticed the small black and white structure on our property when driving down Rte 414. This 4 x 8 building was our malt kiln that we designed and built ourselves last summer. The kiln was used to dry and smoke grains that we were malting by hand in the distillery. We were very proud of our efforts, as it was one-of-a-kind, and up until this weekend was doing a fine job.
We're not sure exactly what happened, but on Sunday we learned that the kiln had gone up in flames. Thanks to the Burdett Fire Dept for dealing with this unfortunate circumstance and not allowing it to create any further damage.
We are committed to continuing our malting operation. We have done a fair amount of malting for our whiskies and have had luck with grinding the malt green, or without drying. We are also planning to rebuild the kiln sometime in the near future.
The pictures below show the remains of the malt kiln and what it looked like upon completion last fall.
Many of you may have noticed the small black and white structure on our property when driving down Rte 414. This 4 x 8 building was our malt kiln that we designed and built ourselves last summer. The kiln was used to dry and smoke grains that we were malting by hand in the distillery. We were very proud of our efforts, as it was one-of-a-kind, and up until this weekend was doing a fine job.
We're not sure exactly what happened, but on Sunday we learned that the kiln had gone up in flames. Thanks to the Burdett Fire Dept for dealing with this unfortunate circumstance and not allowing it to create any further damage.
We are committed to continuing our malting operation. We have done a fair amount of malting for our whiskies and have had luck with grinding the malt green, or without drying. We are also planning to rebuild the kiln sometime in the near future.
The pictures below show the remains of the malt kiln and what it looked like upon completion last fall.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
A peach picking party
400 lbs of peaches to pit. Seemed pretty intimidating, but we finished them off in a couple hours this past Saturday. Also had time to get started on our first flavored vodka using local berries. More info on that soon.
The peaches were from a local supplier that froze them for us at the end of the season last summer. What will be the finished product from our efforts? You'll have to visit this summer to find out.
The peaches were from a local supplier that froze them for us at the end of the season last summer. What will be the finished product from our efforts? You'll have to visit this summer to find out.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A visit from Felicia
On Saturday, Thomas and I spent some time with Amelia and Leah from Felicia's Atomic Lounge in Ithaca. We had a great time discussing distillation, the local food movement and well crafted cocktails.
You can read about their experience here.
We're looking forward to working with our new friends to create some great concoctions for - what we hope to be - mutual cocktail-loving customers.
Next time you're in Ithaca, stop by Felicia's at 508 West State Street.
You can read about their experience here.
We're looking forward to working with our new friends to create some great concoctions for - what we hope to be - mutual cocktail-loving customers.
Next time you're in Ithaca, stop by Felicia's at 508 West State Street.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Distillery mentioned in NY Magazine
We were mentioned in the recent 5-Point Weekend Escape plan on NY Magazine's website. The feature which focused on Seneca Lake, was written by travel writer, Jean Tang, who visited us a couple of months ago. You can see it here.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Interview - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Wine Blog
We were recently interviewed by Sheila Livadas who writes a wine blog for the Rochester newspaper. You can see it here.
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