WHAT IT’S REALLY LIKE TO BE A… craft distiller
INITIALLY I WANTED TO BE INVOLVED IN PLANTS. I had a wholesale nursery for about 20 years called Renaissance Herbs, and after 20 years I decided I wanted a bit of a change, so instead of putting herbs in pots I decided I’d put them in bottles – and they taste much nicer than they do in a pot. I guess I’ve got a reasonable understanding of herbs and their flavours and how they combine, so that was an advantage when I started the distillery.
which just happens to be a stainless steel bench behind the still and I became the sole student and also the sole lecturer there. I bought two books from the internet: one was from the Michigan State University,
