点评:My twin brother and I did a tour on Friday. We were so lucky to get the owner to be our tour guide. It was the BEST distillery tour that I have ever been on, by far. I live in Ohio, and I have been on 30-40 distillery tours and I actually have my own distillery (albeit a research lab). First, the ingenuity of the entire site in Williamsburg. Using an old motel for a distillery is incredible. The main building is set up with a gift shop on the right and a great bar on the left (some great cocktails offered). In the middle, you can see the fermentation tanks. One set of motel rooms (left of the main building) is the rickhouse. They use bourbon barrels for some of their whiskey, with a brilliant aging approach with fruit charred wood. They palletize their barrels. The next set of motel rooms is their malting facility. This space alone is worth seeing. The owner is so cleaver in how he set up his own malting facility and can use charred wood to kiln his sprouted barley. This mill (outside) is so clearly set up (no dust to start fires), and his cooker/fermentor, using steam and cooling is done great. They pump their distiller's beer to a unique still, that is set up as a still/thumper; a second round allows him to achieve a triple distillation. He uses a swimming pool, during the winter, to cool his system. Another set of motel rooms is the bottling room, and his approach is part hand bottling and part automated. We got to try a flight of their whiskey's, and they were great. Please try with and without a drop of water. Overall, this was an amazing experience, and the owner is a great teacher and marketer of their spirits. This is a must stop.
翻译:我和我的双胞胎兄弟周五参观了酿酒厂。我们非常幸运,请到了酿酒厂老板做我们的导游。这是迄今为止我经历过的最好的酿酒厂之旅。我住在俄亥俄州,参加过三四十次酿酒厂之旅,而且我实际上拥有自己的酿酒厂(虽然只是个研究实验室)。首先,威廉斯堡的整个酿酒厂都充满了巧思。将一家旧汽车旅馆改造成酿酒厂,真是令人难以置信。主楼右侧设有礼品店,左侧设有一间很棒的酒吧(提供一些很棒的鸡尾酒)。在中间,你可以看到发酵罐。其中一组汽车旅馆房间(主楼左侧)是仓库。他们用波本酒桶来酿造威士忌,并用水果炭化木材进行巧妙的陈酿。他们将酒桶用托盘装起来。接下来的一组汽车旅馆房间是他们的麦芽制造设施。光是这一点就值得一看。店主非常聪明,他建立了自己的麦芽制造设施,可以使用烧焦的木头来烘干发芽的大麦。这个磨坊(外面)设置得非常清晰(没有灰尘生火),他的蒸煮器/发酵罐使用蒸汽和冷却,做得很好。他们将酿酒师的啤酒泵入一个独特的蒸馏器,该蒸馏器设置为蒸馏器/重击器;第二轮可以实现三重蒸馏。在冬天,他使用游泳池来冷却他的系统。另一组汽车旅馆房间是装瓶室,他的装瓶方法是部分手工装瓶,部分自动化。我们品尝了他们的威士忌,非常棒。请尝试加水和不加水两种口味。总而言之,这是一次奇妙的体验,店主是一位很棒的烈酒老师和营销人员。这是必游之地。