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Quaich1
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 Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:32 pm Post subject: Craft whisky, rum, gin, vodka distillery for Dufferin Co. |
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"Dufferin County could lay claim to its own liquor label, if Matthew McBride and Jill Johnson's proposal to build a distillery on their Mulmur farm gets going.'
"There are so few micro distilleries in Ontario," McBride said. "That is one of the reasons we chose a distillery. We want to be unique in the marketplace."
"Mulmur council recently approved the couple's plan to operate a small craft distillery and farm retail store on their 47-acre property located on Airport Road between the Dufferin County Museum and Archives and the village of Stanton."
http://www.orangeville.com/news-story/5188692-craft-whisky-rum-gin-and-vodka-distillery-proposed-for-dufferin-county/
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Quaich1
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| Samson wrote: | | It may just be me but the link isnt working for me. |
Hi Samson. Sorry you're having trouble with the link. Here is the rest of the article:
"Several approvals are still required before McBride and Johnson's distillery plans can take hold. The largest comes in the form of obtaining a license from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO).
"It is a business plan that we would put forward along with that application," Johnson said. "It will be up to that body to decide. - They decide whether it is yay or nay."
As McBride explained, there are only about six or seven micro distilleries operating in Ontario, and maybe about 30 to 35 in Canada alone.
If their approvals come through, the couple intends to produce whisky, gin, rum, cassis, vodka, brandy, moonshine and other spirits, all with ingredients sourced from local farmers.
"We're interested in the local food movement and have kind of participated in that as being customers on the sidelines," Johnson said. "What we hope to do is really be a natural extension of that local movement."
Set to open this spring, the retail farm store would market the couple's livestock and produce. They plan to grow apples, berries, squash, pumpkins, grains and a variety of other products on their land.
The proposed distillery, which would operate under a "Grain to Glass" model, is what really has people "quite excited and blown away" by though, McBride explained.
"That's what everybody has been telling us," Johnson laughed. "Let's just move onto the distillery."
Although they've never produced their own liquor, McBride has taken a number of courses in the United States focused on the "A to Z of running a distillery."
"It is not a whole lot different from baking bread or making soup," he said. "You can make a good soup with good ingredients and portions. Cooked for just the right amount of time, you get an excellent soup. It is going to be the same sort of thing with making spirits."
While much of the attention tends to focus around whisky, the couple seeks to create a broad range of spirits, many of which they would incorporate fruit into as a way to accent their flavours.
"We have lots of apple producers that would help us make a lovely apple brandy," McBride said. "Our consumers are going to tell us what to make more of."
Mulmur council will certainly pay close attention as the couple's plans move forward. Although some residents have raised concerns, Mills said McBride and Johnson have addressed those to the satisfaction of council.
"They want to work with the local farmers and buy their grain from them for the distillery," Mills said, noting the township must encourage entrepreneurs to invest in Mulmur.
"I can see it being a real two-way street where everybody in the area will benefit from it in some way or another," Mills added. "I think it is going to be a real benefit to the township."
McBride and Johnson don't plan to build their distillery in a whimsical fashion either.
They've put a lot of thought into the sustainability of the operation. For example, they plan to use the distillery's spent mash left over from liquor production as feed for their drove of Berkshire pigs.
"I call it the great corn-whisky-bacon lifecycle," McBride smiled. "It shows the interconnectedness because distillation and making spirits is an agricultural act."
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