I took a rare "zymological" week-day holiday today to make use of a kind invite from Charlie Wise over at the Copper Fox Distillery in Sperryville, VA. It was their Brewer's Day and I was privileged to be able to hang with brewers from several local micros who plan to use their specialty malts. The Copper Fox uses only Virginia-grown wheat, barley, oats and rye for their spirit distillery and they recently expanded their floor malting operation to supply malts to local and regional breweries. This will grow even more once their new Williamsburg facility comes on line. Besides the floor malting facility, they also do their own kilning and smoking with local apple and cherry wood. I can't wait to try some of this in a future batch here at the Food Patch Nano (Charlie giving us the low down on their floor malting operation; click for larger images)
Touring the distillery hall.
Their main still, appropriately back dropped.
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