We had our Home Wine Making Workshop today. Dr. Karl Wilker and Todd Frye of the Home Brewery in Ozark gave the presentations. C. J. Odneal, Jeremy Emery, Makayla Vandiver and Karly Negus helped with the hands-on demonstrations and tour. … [Read more...] about Home wine making workshop held today
We harvested some Mars grapes for the Home Wine Making Workshop tomorrow to use in demonstrations of the stemmer crusher and pressing the juice. … [Read more...] about Harvesting Mars grapes for the workshop tomorrow
Our 2017 Distillation Basics Workshop was held yesterday and today, May 16th and 17th. The hands-on workshop is limited to 8 participants who are either presently involved in or who are considering commercial craft distillation. Our group hailed from Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and Tennessee. … [Read more...] about 2017 Distillation Basics Workshop
We held our two-day Distillation Basics Workshop yesterday and today. The first day of the workshop, the participants learned the basics of distillation from Dr. Karl Wilker. On the second day, they distilled grape spirits, learning the process of running the still and the sensory evaluation skills needed to differentiate between the different phases of the process in order to … [Read more...] about Distillation Workshop 2016
The Chambourcin Reserve wine was bottled today. Here are some photos from the bottling line. … [Read more...] about Bottling the Chambourcin Reserve