Nor Cal Rabble Distillery Tour

**walkerk** · 29th June 08, 06:52 PM

Monkey@Arms had arranged a fun tour for the Nor Cal Rabble at St. George Spirits, located on the decommissioned Alameda Naval Air Station. The huge buildings there are an ideal place for small firms needing lots of space.

Here's a view of the Rabble with San Francisco in the background. On the left is demolay1310 who we met for the first time.

On the way in, the dragon logo looms overhead.

This must be the place.

**walkerk** · 29th June 08, 06:56 PM

Inside the building. Hangar One Vodka is one of their major products.

Funky old sign overhead.

A collection of their bottles.

**walkerk** · 29th June 08, 06:59 PM

Belly up to the bar.

What we were tasting.

Getting ready for serious work.

**walkerk** · 29th June 08, 07:05 PM

A tour of the stills.

Our distiller gave us a great tour despite having worked hard the previous evening for an open house for hundreds of people.

Storage tanks at the other end of the hangar.

**walkerk** · 29th June 08, 07:10 PM

M@A's friend Matt gets some questions answered.

Absinthe is one of their specialties.

We all had a wonderful time, finishing up with supper at a local restaurant. Looking forward to meeting some of you again next weekend at Monterey.

**The F-H.C.A.G.** · 29th June 08, 08:09 PM

Wow, Kent, you're fast at the posting! It took us a little longer to get home and recover enough to upload the pics.

St. George's/Hangar One advertises the great view of the city skyline. Although the air quality is still poor, we did eventually get a decent look at the city, but first we had to get these hams out of the way:

Now here's the beautiful city by the bay:

Once the tasting started, we got veeeerrry serious about it:

But don't worry, we get pretty silly later....

More to come...

Be well,

**Monkey@Arms** · 29th June 08, 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by walkerk

You all take such great photos I'm thinking of hiring out the Nor Cal Rabble to take pictures at weddings and bar mitzvahs.

(They'll probably work for booze.

) Glad things went smoothly today, Mathew and I had a great time, and I've adopted the crazed absinthe monkey as my new avatar.

Best regards,

Jake

**CelticRanger66** · 29th June 08, 08:25 PM

Great Pics!!!

**IrishGodfather** · 29th June 08, 08:54 PM

Awesome pictures m8!!!!

**Alan H** · 29th June 08, 11:20 PM

WOW.

I just crawled around the boat, troubleshot electrical issues, threaded my experimental spinnaker thong line through the kite, and couldn't go sailing 'cause I was so bleedin' busy doing all THAT stuff.

It looks like fun!

BTW, no way I will be at Monterey Games. I'd love to but I have GOT to get some on-the-water time.