There's a lot of stuff and countries half-way between the Equator and the North Pole but one of my favorites is our friend Scott's vodka distillery. It's named after the famous circle of latitude on which it (roughly) is located. It's not far from Stillwater, MN and is therefore within reach of a bike ride so I rode my bike over and met Brenda and our art director (*cough* designer) friend Han Lin and we took a tour of the thing. It was just us and Scott who was nice enough to walk us through the entire process from corn to bottled vodka to packaged bottles and it reminded me of those episodes of Mr. Rogers when he showed us kids how they make violins or whatever. It's incredible how many parts of the process you can tweak that affect the taste in spite of the fact that the ingredient list is incredibly short. We were also impressed by the look of the imported german distillery equipment he bought and couldn't help but suspect that some of its aesthetic awesomeness was intentional. The tour ended with the hoped-for tasting session which did not disappoint. If you live in MN or WI, try some. There are lots of places to find it in Minneapolis...Manny's, Red Stag, the W bar, and a bunch more.
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