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. While you are waiting for me to move the content here, you can read the first 30 chapters on Slashfood: http://www.slashfood.com/category/diary-of-a-distiller/
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 ex partners stalling on construction, 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. It makes no sense to me, after all the work I did to improve and market the winery, build the brewery, and establishing a brand; they let me down when it came to the distillery. Why? Who knows? I’m not going to waste my time and energy dwelling on it, I’m moving on with my life, and going to start a much bigger and better distillery than I originally planned. It may take awhile, but not too long.
So, I moved back to the New York City suburbs 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. Currently my distilling equipment is in storage, but my plans are to move on with the project.