1st Annual Craft Distiller's Festival Hosted by Williamsburg Distillery

Dr D with Neal Steele at WXGM radio in Gloucester, Virginia yesterday, pictured above.  On the left is Neal Steele and on the right is Dr D.  This was in the recording studio at the radio station.  Dr D and Neal were putting together a promo to run on the radio station for the Williamsburg Distillery's upcoming First Annual Distiller's Festival being held at the Waterman's Museum in Yorktown on August 20th, 2016.  The event will feature 7 craft distilleries, one local brewery, food trucks on site, craft vendors, and live music as well as entertainment.

   Distilleries attending include: Vitae Spirits Distillery, Belle Isle Craft Spirits, KO Distilling, Virginia Distillery Company, Cirrus Vodka, MurLarkey Distilled Spirits, and Williamsburg Distillery.  Tickets to the event are $30.00 in advance or $40.00 the day of the event.  We also welcome those between the ages of 13 and 20 and those who aren't drinking for just $10. Children 12 and under can enter for free.  Where do you buy tickets in advance?

CLICK HERE for tickets.

   Again, that is August 20th, 2016.  The time is from 4:00 PM til 8:00 PM.  In the event of rain, there is a rain date of August 27th, 2016, same time.  So mark this on your calendar.  This is going to be a wonderful time. 

June 22nd, 2016 Learn Colonial Dance - Free Event - Last one of the year

On June 22nd, 2016 we are holding our last class of this year for learning Colonial Dance.  This class is taught by a Colonial Williamsburg professional instructor.  After this, you can learn Colonial Dance at Colonial Williamsburg for a fee.  But here you get to learn it for free at the Distillery.  This is our third and final class this year and we will not do this again until next year and that depends on availability of our instructor.  This class is a lot of fun and did I mention it was free?  If you have not had a chance to try either our Gin or our Gold Medal award winning Rum, then make sure you come to this event and you can sample either or both the Gin and the Rum for free at this class.

  We will be posting a video or two of our last class very soon so you can see what you have been missing.  This is also a great time to meet the owner, Dr D.  Pictured back right with the flags behind him.

We will do our best to try and get one of these great big smiles for you from Dr D when you come in too.  If not, maybe we can get him to tell you a bad joke.  That usually gets him smiling.

  So put this date on your calendar and plan on coming out to learn Colonial Dance.  (Did I mention it was free too)?  

Yorktown Rum Takes Gold Medal In Los Angeles, California Competition - 91 Points

Our Yorktown Rum has just finished with a Gold Medal winning in an International competition.  The rum came up 91 points in the Los Angeles, California International Spirits competition for 2016 beating out some very big names and we once again beat out Bacardi where they had multiple entries.

  What is even more impressive is we beat out most entries where the rum was aged.  There were only 3 rums that were above us in this competition.  Congratulations to Dictador 20 Year Old Solera System Rum that came in with a very impressive 96 points, Dos Maderas 5+3 Rum that came in with 93 points and Blue Water Ultra that came in with 92 points.  We share 91 points with Cruzan Single Barrel Rum, Cruzan Aged Dark Rum, Kirk and Sweeney Rum. Pelican Harbor Light Rum.

  What we are able to show by all of this is that aging is not a serious factor in the quality of any rum nor is spicing one's rum.  We beat out many of those by using quality ingredients.  Check out the results here at this link below.

http://www.laspiritscomp.com/wos/spirits_competition/documents/Gold%20Medal%20Awards.pdf

Adding flavors to rum did not help anyone in the competition.  Dark rum was not better than a white rum.  Dictador 20 Year Old Solera System Rum is very expensive to produce.  Who wants to age a rum for 20 years?  Sure, it got the company 96 points which is fantastic and they were named best of the best, but at what cost?  (I have to admit, I would be more than happy to try a bottle).  So as you will notice, Cruzan, who we share 91 points with, both of their entries were aged rums.  Again, at what cost?  We did not age our rum at all.  We did not color it nor did we add any additional flavors.  We just used quality ingredients and ran the still the way it's supposed to be run using an historical recipe.

  But that is what we are about.  Bringing to you historical interpretations of what the first rum would have tasted like and ensuring we give you the highest quality product we can produce.  Now it shows.  We are working on some plans to still improve our rum.  We want to take that 96 points next time and we will do it without aging.  We set out sights to the Gold and we easily made it.  Now we are setting our sights on best of the best.  You can rest assured we will make that too.  And best of all, it's all made right here in the Good old USA. Hey, better yet, It's Virginia made in the heart of America's most historical birth place.  Thank you for your support.