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May 13, 2013

Grain to glass: Making booze from local crops

  • Wood Creek Distillers in Colorado grows its own potatoes for high-end vodka and Wigle Whiskey in Pittsburgh uses local, heirloom rye.
    • By MICHAEL HILL
    Associated Press

    GARDINER, N.Y. — With all the orchards and corn fields that dot the Hudson Valley landscape, Tuthilltown Spirits doesn't have to look far for the grains and apples to make their whiskey, vodka and gin.

    The 10-year-old company crafts many of their liquors from ingredients grown no more than a few minutes away, the bounty of the rolling hills that surround it.


     
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