The tasting is a scant $15.00 and includes their full range of liquors including Pear Aquavite, Hangar 1 Vodkas (Buddha's Hand, Mandarin Blossom, Straight, and Kaffir Lime), their whiskey (not a big whiskey fan, but not bad, more of a bourbon guy), three different liqueurs (Pear, Framboise, and Coffee - by the way the Framboise was over the top tasty good), and of course Absynthe...
I took the tour too...it's in an old airplane hangar, on the old decommissioned Navy Base in Alameda, and hosts an excellent view of San Francisco.
The tour guide explained more about distilling spirits than one person ought to know...
This tongue in cheek distillery is my new favorite small batch liquor provider, and I look forward to their odd concoctions and potions...irreverence breeds a high degree of creative, and as a consumer of fine liquors, for this I'm grateful.
This fine apparatus is the distillery for the Absynthe (notice the platform shaped similarly to a certain french landmark).
The shark? From the movie Deep Blue Ocean starring Samuel Jackson - the Hangar next to this one housed the company that would create these type of animatronic thingees, and when they moved, the owner of the company traded booze for it. (They also created the snakes from the movie Anaconda - yeah, I know, class!)
Pears, ready for the distilling process...
To all friends thinking of visiting the area, this is definitely a highly recommend spot on the Wally scale! If bringing over five people reservations are recommended.
http://www.stgeorgespirits.com/
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It's good to know that you resort to liquor to deal with your loneliness.
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