Episode 096
Battlefield to Glass Spirits
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What’s shakin, cocktail fans?
Welcome back to another episode of The Modern Bar Cart Podcast!
This episode, we hang out with distiller Yianni Barakos of Mason Dixon Distillery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, home to the Gettysburg National Military Park. We talk a lot about what it means to look at spirits through a local lens as you take them from grain to glass.
Some of the things we discuss with Yianni in this episode include:
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How a napkin sketch, a home distilling fire, and a serious accident led Yianni to pursue a career in distilling sooner than he had anticipated.
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What Mason Dixon Distillery is doing to introduce folks in central Pennsylvania to incredible craft spirits and a wide variety of bold flavors in their German beer hall-inspired pub.
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How Yianni was awarded a special lease to farm his grain on the Gettysburg National Military Park.
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A curated tasting of Mason Dixon’s excellent craft spirits and some notes on the distilling setup and barrel program used to create them.
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The differences between a hyper-specialized spirits program and a more wide-ranging approach to building your portfolio.
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And much, much more.
