CRAFT DISTILLERS

It's because we thought there was a lot of room for improvement. Among us we had some 50 years thinking about and distilling craft-method spirits. Ansley Coale of Craft Distillers and Crispin and Devin Cain of Tamar distillery talked, thought, experimented, tasted. One of the things we wanted to do was figure out how to distill a real-fruit gin, one that would include genuine flavors, instead of having them added, so that we could make authentic Lime and Ginger gins... The American Craft Whiskey Distillery is a collaboration between distiller Crispin Cain (Germain-Robin absinthe, Crispin's Rose liqueur) and Ansley Coale of Craft Distillers. Crispin apprenticed for seven years with Hubert Germain-Robin, then founded Greenway Distillery in 2005. His Rose Liqueur, made on the whiskey still, was selected world's "Best Liqueur" by Robb Report in 2008. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal gave his Germain-Robin Absinthe a 5-star rating: "Unblemished clarity… Stands alone"... Alipus was started by..

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