Williams 2014

 

Crate of Pears

 

Dumping the pears into the masher

 

Remo sorts out the bad pears

 

Marco and Remo sorting pears

 

Finishing touches

 

Our lovely pears, ready to be mashed

 

That's a lot of pears

 

Pumping the pureéd pears into a barrel

 

Herr Zürcher filling barrels with pear-mash

 

Only a few pears remaining...

 

...and they're gone.

 

One barrel full of pear mash

 

Remo & Dani have a look around

 

The distiller

 

Dani in front of the distiller

 

Inside the distiller

 

Setting up the pump for the pear slurry

 

The pump is running

 

Remo & Dani are "helping"

 

Herr Zürcher runs the pump

 

The distillers

 

The distiller full of Encodo's pear slurry

 

The final mixing

 

Heating up the pears

 

Over 60°C now...

 

Remo & Dani wait for distillation

 

Armin inspects the distiller

 

Over 80°C now...

 

Bleeding off the toxic part

 

Shiny distillation equipment

 

Almost ready to distill the Williams

 

Encodo's Williams dribbles out

 

It's 80% alcohol when it comes out!

 

The official stamp & license from the state

 

Bottle label

 

Reto's official booze-burning tags

 

Marco and Armin deal with the guard dog

 

The production line

 

Remo and Marc in front of the distillers

 

The production line in full swing

 

No!!! Don't touch that!

 

Pascal hands Urs the next bottle to fill

 

Fabi corks another bottle

 

Armin seals the bottle while Karin and Dani look on

 

Karin packs a bottle in bubble wrap

 

Pascal fills a bottle

 

Armin and Urs team up to drain the cask

 

Fabi fills a bottle with "Alte Willi"

 

Urs can't help himself

 

The finished product, ready for shipping