Flights Are Coming

Flights are coming, flights are coming.  What are flights?  Now that is a good question.  Flights are a tray or some form of cup or glass holder where one has drinks lined up on them so that they can sample various forms of a type of spirit.  In other words, a tray with 4 drinks on them.

  Now Virginia ABC allows us to serve up to and only 2 shots per day per person.  No more period.  This is beyond our control and we will stick to that limit.  So does that mean that flights will only be 2 drinks?  No.   Our flights are going to consist of 4 drinks but the maximum alcohol level between all 4 drinks will be 2 shots.  So each drink will be a half of one shot.  Once you buy one flight, that is it.  We can not sell you another flight until the next day.  It's not that we do not want to, it's that we are not allowed to and we want you to be safe and come back.

  So we are lining up a nice series of old recipe drinks made with our Rum or Gin.  If you prefer, you can mix two gin drinks with two rum drinks.  As much as we would love to have bourbon ready, it just won't happen yet.  So when does this all begin?  In just a few short weeks from this post date.  Just so there are no disappointments the drink sizes are only half size due to the limit on the amount of alcohol we can put in each glass which again is only a half of a shot.

  We will post pictures of our drinks soon.

Chocolate Rum Balls Easy Recipe

Now here is a fast easy recipe for making chocolate rum balls.  Recommended in the video is using dark rum, that isn't at all required.  We recommend using our white rum.  It's smooth and does not give any negative after tastes to the recipe which some dark rums will cause.  If you want to make them extra strong without being over bearing?  Add some rum to the chocolate topping as well.  

Welcome to our new blog

Hello everyone and welcome to our new blog site for the Williamsburg Distillery.  Here we will post news, updates and recipes for everyone.  On this site we can expand and offer more information to you than we can either on our main website at http://www.williamsburg-distillery.com  or on our Facebook page.

  We can share entire recipes here and bring you full news that just does not work on other platforms.  Plus we have been having some issues getting areas corrected on our main site, please bare with us on that.  One thing I would like to take a moment to correct is the fact that our main site states we produce Vodka.  We looked at that before we ever got our license, but decided against it.  Our main products are Rum, Gin and Bourbon.  Right now we are producing an historic triangle series.  Our Rum is Yorktown Rum, our Gin is Jamestown Gin and our Bourbon is Williamsburg Bourbon.

  Now we have already produced Bourbon, but it is not yet available in our store or in the ABC stores yet.  It was barreled in February of this year, (2016), so it is going to take some time to properly age.  How long?  Well to put it this way, not soon enough and the expectations are about 3 years minimum.  It could be ready sooner, but we are not really expecting to see it sooner.

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