This is part of an ongoing series of stories exploring rye, the crop, as it becomes Rye, the whisky. Rye as a crop is older than the pyramids. It might have filled the bellies of the very first farmers as the last ice age was melting. Other stories in this series: More producers start growing […] Read more
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Alta. distillery makes use of local crops
Rig Hand Craft Distillery goes hard on local. The distilling house makes several types of brum, a rum-like drink made from Alberta beet sugar, vodka made with local grains, and saskatoon berry-flavoured mead. Rig Hand has been in the distilling business for eight years, producing those products and more out of a location in Nisku, […] Read more
