St George Spirits Distillery Tour
Alana and I finally made it out to Alameda to take the tour at St George Spirits last weekend. The distillery started in emeryville in the 80s making eau de vie but has since branched out to make just about everything in their giant hangar in Alameda that used to belong to a fighter squadron. They have a decent tour, though if you are fairly knowledgeable it is a little basic. The guide told a great story about a recent experimentation with tequila and the difficulty of cutting up the agave that involved machetes, broken wood chippers and chainsaws.
After the tour we did a tasting of just about their whole portfolio, including: pear eau de vie (with 15lbs of pears per bottle), raspberry eau de vie, kaffir lime vodka, mandarin blossom vodka, buddhas hand vodka, 2 kinds of black tea liqueur, 2 aged single malt whiskeys, a pear liqueur and a raspberry liqueur. Not a bad run for $10.
They are doing an open house next weekend that sounds like it would be pretty cool. So if you get the chance to get over there it is absolutely worth it.
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