Many people mistake the distilling process as the “alcohol creation” process. Rather is it the process in which a chemical, in this case ethanol alcohol, is removed from another chemical. The process ...

The distiller mixes yeast, water, and sugar (or a sugar-containing grain) in a fermenter, aka a mash tun. After three to seven days of voracious fermenting, the yeast has consumed most of the sugar, ...

Whether you mix vodka with soda water, make Cosmos, or simply knock it back as a shot, you've probably used Absolut Vodka as your spirit of choice at some point or another. Even so, you might not be ...

SARONA, Wis. — The Perlick family had two goals when they opened their distillery seven years ago: add value to the grains grown on the farm and create high-quality distilled spirits. The farm the ...

Gin is made from a carbohydrate base, juniper berries, and other botanicals. What makes it distinct from other liquors is the use of botanicals.

We’ve seen plenty of Arduinofied home brewing setups, and kegerators are a fairly standard project for the types of people we hang out with. What we haven’t seen a lot of are home stills. There are ...

Here's a new twist on an old drink: gluten-free distilled spirits. After a 2012 Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) interim ruling, gluten-free labeled vodkas hit the market this year, ...

KNOWLTON - With all due respect to the beer brewers out there, the most Wisconsin-y adult beverages produced today have got to be the vodkas and gins distilled in a small town between Wausau and ...

Add one more place to the ever-expanding list of places to drink local – and at this bar, you can watch the alcohol being made. David Bahre, who has operated Wheat State Distilling for three years, ...