I am rebuilding this site, chapters and photos will be posted as fast as I can get it up and running. Chapters One through Thirty of Diary of a Distiller were originally published at AOL.com / Slashfood.com on the dates indicated.
Hi Folks, here it is over a year later and there have been many changes. Penobscot Bay Distillery is no more. After a year of my supposed partners playing head games, stalling on construction, and other assorted idiocy, I pulled out of the project. They managed to draw out construction for so long that I ran shorter on funds than I had planned. There wasn’t much work that had to be done, but it was one excuse after another. A total of 6 weeks construction wasn’t finished after 21 months. I’m not sure why they did this. It makes no sense to me. After all the hard work I did to help improve and market the winery, after helping build the brewery and establishing a brand, they let me down when it came to the distillery. Shysters? Crooks? Scared and intimidated by my talent and success? Who knows? I’ll let their conscience, or lack thereof, deal with it.
I moved back to the New York City suburbs a few months ago and I am in discussion with several groups about starting up a distillery again. It will be located somewhere in NY State. Whether in the NYC Metro area, or an hour or so upstate i haven’t decided yet. So currently my distilling equipment is in storage, but my plans are to move on with the project. Eventually.