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Williams 2014
The story of how we made Williams, a pear-flavored schnapps for the holidays in 2014. More information available here.
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