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This month we spoke with many companies from the Craft Brewing and Distilling Industries all across North America and learned that most are family businesses built from tradition and a deeply entrenched passion for what they do and create. The Ampersand Distilling Company in beautiful British Columbia, Canada is no different. We spoke with Jeremy and Jessica Schacht, who tell about building their company out of a love of craft cocktails. Combining Jeremy’s formal education in chemical engineering complimented by his parents’ love of organic farming.
There may be a popular perception that the production of spirits such as vodka and gin traditionally belongs to other places around the world, Russia for vodka, the UK for gin, but we spoke with Top Shelf co-founder, John Criswick and Social Media and Events Manager, Stuart Thornley in Perth, Ontario, Canada about the successful operation of a fully functioning distillery, some 100 years after the last official one closed its doors in the region that is changing the minds of those who thought that distill- ing was strictly a foreign endeavor. We hope you enjoy these tasty stories and we would like to thank all those involved with this issue and our readers as we look forward to telling more stories about successful businesses and the people making it happen.
The result, well you will have to read to find out, but at Halloween this is no better time for some top-notch spirits.
From there we went to the Canadian Maritime provinces which are associated with many flavorful delights such as seafood, wine and some of the best apple orchards in the world, sprawling endlessly alongside the vineyards of Nova Scotia. Nestled on Main St. in downtown Wolfville, Nova Scotia, a small, and evidently thirsty, uni- versity town whose population of about 4,000 usually doubles during the school year, sits the Annapolis Cider Company. We spoke with owner, Sean Myles about his almost two-year- old business, the region, his business philosophy, and of course, their unique ciders that will have you thinking about bobbing for more than apples at your next party. Staying on the East Coast, but moving south off the border we chat with Jason Barrett of Black Button Distilling in Rochester, New York and hear of his amazing story from this button manufacture turned distiller, which is a true American entrepreneur story. When we used to think of Maui, Hawaii, we thought of amazing surf and sandy beaches, well we still do, but after meeting Garrett Marrero, co-owner and founder of the Maui Brewing Company we want to enjoy the view with a tasty brew, that rep- resents the local agriculture with flavors like citrus, mango, pineapple and coconut, giving their pub patrons a true taste of the islands that they will not soon forget, just like the Islands themselves.
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