Love the drinks here! Great place to hang out and chill with friends. Patio is amazinggggg. If you're hungry, get some underground butcher meats and banzo hummus and pita. Great sides for drinks!
What to get?
Gringo - horchata with honey liquor
Honey cap - easy to down drink; lime and honey liquor
Everything is amazing!
Because of Yelp's Boozing and Schmoozing, we got to learn all about Old Sugar Distillery from Ernest!
Inspired by the old sugar factory behind olbrich, Old Sugar Distillery has been up and running in the Willy street area for 4 years.
All the liquors are made from some type of sugar, and the makers attempt to source sugar and ingredients as local as possible. The gigantic pot steel by the door/window can fill up to 450 gallons of liquid!
Most drinks start out with:
1000 pound of sugar
150-200 gallon of water
Champagne yeast. Doesn't add a lot of flavor.
2 weeks fermentation. Then back into pot steel.
Vapors. 15-20h of vaporizing alcohol into condenser. Gaggling style of cold water tubes.
End up with 50 gallons of high proof alcohol for aging!
Oak barrels from Minnesota
Small 10 gallon barrels
Used only once
Efficient
Takes 10 months to age
1 month to age per gallon
Add distilled water to lower the proof of aged liquor
100% Wisconsin brandy
Grapes are picked by their own employees or volunteers!