The first of two distillation workshops was held today. The morning session was held in Faurot Hall and the afternoon session in the distillery. Eleven people attended the event from Missouri, Oklahoma and Alabama. Dr. Karl Wilker, C. J. Odneal and Josh Glasson worked with the group. … [Read more...] about Distillation workshop today
Twenty-eight people participated in our home winemaking workshop held today. Dr. Karl Wilker, professor and winemaker at MSU, and Mr. Todd Frye, owner of the Home Brewery in Ozark, presented information on home winemaking. Graduate students Xinyi Zhang and Josh Glasson helped people through demonstrations on sensory evaluation of glassware and wine flaws. After the … [Read more...] about Home Winemaking Workshop held today
Dr. Wilker is planning to add apple juice to distilled apple spirits to produce a type of apple liqueur this year. … [Read more...] about Spirited apple juice
Xinyi Zhang's research treatments on canopy management plots in the field follow through to the winery as well. Xinyi, with Caleb's help, is pressing wine fermented on the skins from each treatment plot she managed in the vineyard. She will make Norton wine from each treatment and block to statistically analyze in order to show if any differences in the vineyard treatments are … [Read more...] about Research from vineyard to winery