Grain To Glass
How We Make Our Spirits
Every step, from grain to glass, happens in our Longmont distillery.
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Mash
We cook grains with water to make their starches available. Enzymes break those starches into sugars that yeast can use.
Grain, water and the start of something good.
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Ferment
Yeast turns the sugars into alcohol, creating a beer like wash. Fermentation builds the flavors that carry into the spirit.
A living process. A spirit taking shape.
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Distill
Our copper pot still heats the wash and collects the vapor as it condenses. We select the heart of the run for its character. The spirit comes off clear.
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Barrel
Whiskey goes into charred white oak. The wood and char begin shaping its color, aroma and flavor.
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Time
At 4,979 feet, Colorado's changing climate works on the barrel. Temperature changes move spirit into and out of the wood. Patience does the rest.
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Bottle
When the spirit is ready, our crew draws it and bottles it by hand. The journey ends with a bottle ready to share.
Grain To Glass
Watch it happen. Scroll the whole journey.
Follow the transformation from grain to the final pour in our barrel story.
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