San Juan Island Distillery
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We are three partners: Rich Anderson and Suzy and Hawk Pingree. Rich Anderson is a retired Boeing systems analyst who planted the orchard at Westcott Bay and began making hard cider in 1999. Suzy and Hawk Pingree are retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professors who went for a walk one day by Rich's orchard and said to themselves, "Why isn't that guy making apple brandy with those beautiful apples?" It turned out that Rich was pretty interested in that idea, so now we are all partners in both Westcott Bay Cider and San Juan Island Distillery. We all work together to pick apples, press them and make wonderful ciders and spirits.
Westcott Bay Cider is the second-oldest ciderworks in Washington. We harvest the 16 varieties of apples in Rich's small (acre and a half) orchard, press the apples into fresh juice, pitch a champagne yeast into the juice and slowly ferment it into their prize-winning ciders. Half the battle of making a fine spirit is in properly fermenting what goes into the still. We know how to do that!
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