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On the gate to Maker's Mark distillery in Burkes Spring is the symbol S IV. The S refers to the surname of Bill Samuel, who was the 4th generation distiller in Central Kentucky's Samuel family. He created Maker's Mark bourbon whiskey in 1958.
Maker's Mark is a whiskey brand of Chicago-based Beam Suntory, which in turn is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan.
This site on Milton Road has been connected to the industries of distilling and brewing for over 130 years. During this period, many changes in the brewing process have occurred but the brewery has remained as an integral and highly visible part of the suburb. The business and location have become firmly linked to perceptions of the city’s and state’s identity and are strongly associated with the suburb of Milton.
In 1870, the ‘Queensland Distillery’ was established on high land in the inner city Brisbane suburb of Milton. Built by W. Samwell, this early venture was hampered by failures in sugar crops in the early 1870s. This forced Samwell to take on a partner, James Hardy Medhurst. However this partnership was short-lived, and Robert Forsyth bought Samwell out. In 1872, Forsyth bought out the entire operation and renamed the site Forsyth’s Distillery, producing rum and acting as an agent for the sale of wine. The distillery was not a success, and in September 1877 the business and surrounding land were bought by Fitzgerald Quinlan and Co, with the intention of building a brewery.
While the Quinlan family were involved in business as shipping agents, the Fitzgerald partnership consisted of two brothers with a background in brewing. Nicholas and Edward were the sons of Francis Fitzgerald, a well-known Irish brewer. After arriving in Australia in the 1850s, they established the Castlemaine Brewery in Castlemaine, Victoria. Their venture had been a success, and they had decided to extend their activities to Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane.
Brewed to the same formula as in southern states, the first product from the new Milton Brewery was produced in September 1878, entitled ‘Castlemaine XXX Sparkling Ale’. Since medieval times when brewing was confined mainly to monasteries, X (the sign of the cross) had been a standard symbol of purity for alcoholic beverages, being used to indicate the potency of ales and wines. By 1887, it was decided to form a limited liability company called the Castlemaine Brewery and Quinlan Gray and Company Brisbane.
In 1916, ‘Castlemaine XXXX Sparkling Ale’ was first produced, with quality improved by adopting the Continental method. By 1920, the Directors decided that a new beer should be brewed with the Queensland palate in mind and a new German brewer, Mr Bill Leitner, decided that a lighter, German style lager would be more acceptable to the Queensland drinker.
In February 1924, Castlemaine first introduced their XXXX Bitter Ale, a product that is still sold today. Later that same year, the ‘Mr Fourex’ character first appeared in advertising. According to the family of Ian Gall, the Courier Mail cartoonist created ‘Mr Fourex’ in the early 1920s, possibly styling him on Paddy Fitzgerald, General Manager of the Castlemaine Perkins Brewery during the 1920s. It was also during 1924 that bottle labels first appeared featuring an illustration of the brewery buildings facing Milton Road.
In 1928, negotiations were completed with Perkins and Company Ltd. for the purchase of the company’s Brisbane and Toowoomba breweries. The deal also included the purchase of a number of freehold and leasehold hotels. Perkins and company had a history almost as old as the Castlemaine Brewery partnership. Formed in 1881, they had been one of the most prosperous breweries in Queensland but had encountered difficult business conditions due to fierce competition from Castlemaine. Perkins attempted to regain a place in the market by producing a XXXXX beer, but this hastened their demise. By October 1928, the merger was complete and the company became Castlemaine Perkins Ltd.
The company continued to expand and develop, and, in 1940, it was announced a new administration building and brewing tower were to be constructed. Construction began in April 1941 but was halted in December due to Japan’s entry into the war. Even after 1945, material shortages resulted in the administration building and brewing tower being not totally completed until 1951. However, 1946 aerial photographs of the site clearly show the brewing tower and surrounding building was externally complete. This is supported by the fact that the earliest brewing kettle in the building is thought to date from 1945.
The main administration building and brewing tower represent the first stage of a development period in which the brewery began to dominate the local townscape. Substantially built during the 1940s, the building is in the Interwar Functionalist Style as influenced by a branch of the Modernist movement. Typical Functionalist characteristics of the building include its asymmetrical massing, use of glass bricks and the Art Deco lettering inscribed on the tower.
Architects Addison and Macdonald who called for tenders in April 1941 designed the main building and brewing tower. Builder, K.D. Morris, was awarded the contract. Addison and Macdonald specialised in buildings for Castlemaine Perkins and the Queensland Brewing Company, designing hotels and brewery buildings throughout the 1930s period. By the time the partnership was dissolved in 1947, the firm had both major breweries, Castlemaine and Queensland, as their clients.
Other examples of buildings in the Inter-war Functionalist style include the Credit Union Australia Building, built between 1940 and 1942 for the Queensland Brewery Company. The building contained administrative offices as well as areas dedicated to cellaring, cooperage, storage, goods handling and loading. This building, now entered on the Queensland Heritage Register, was also designed by H.S. Macdonald of Addison and McDonald, who played a significant role in the introduction of the Functionalist style to Queensland. George Frederick Addison was the son of prominent architect, George Henry Male Addison. He designed the Marist Brothers monastery at Rosalie in 1928 as his first project with professional business partner, G.F. Macdonald.
Workshops, stores and cold cellars were also constructed in the period 1951-53. These additional structures facing Milton Road incorporate similar elements to the main building but are more austere. As a result of the extensions on either side of the main building along Milton Road during the 1950s and after, an almost continuous brick façade now dominates the streetscape.
The 1945 copper kettle, other kettles and equipment from the 1950s to 1970s have been kept in situ in the brewing tower building, including a row of taps used during the “mashing” process and some machinery in the tower proper. This equipment is no longer in use but provides valuable evidence about the brewing process of the mid twentieth century. The brewing tower building also contains coloured internal wall tiling that appears to be original.
It is possible that remnants of brick cold stores thought to date from the 1900s or 1910s exist in the present cold stores situated behind the brewing tower. The footprint of the cold stores shown in the 1951 site plan appears to be similar to that of two of the present stores on the site. A notation in the 1951 plan refers to “reconstruction of extg. cold cellars: building application to be made in 1955”. It is possible that this planned reconstruction did not take place. A fire damaged one of the existing cold stores behind the brewing tower in the 1970s.
During 1959-60, a neon sky-sign comprised of the four Xs was built by Claude Neon and positioned on the brewery tower to maximise its visibility from a distance. The XXXX sign is now significant as a rare survivor of a once popular form of advertising employing the use of large-scale neon tubes.
In 1989, the sign was repaired by Claude Neon as the structure had begun to rust. The ‘Mr Fourex’ sign facing towards the outbound lane of Milton Road was erected by Claude Neon in 1989. This, too, has become a well-known icon associated with the Milton brewery.
The large flywheel and associated machinery on the footpath of Milton Road was originally part of the refrigeration compressor installed in 1919. Located behind the glass windows of the engine room, it has been on display at the front of the site since 1972 when the engine room was demolished.
The historical and iconic importance of the brewery at Milton has been well recognised by Castlemaine Perkins in their continuation of the tradition of representing the brewery buildings on beer labels, signage and their letterhead, the retention of remnants of the brewing process such as the flywheel and copper kettles and by the provision of guided tours for school students and others who are interested in the history of brewing. An interpretative plaque situated near the flywheel acknowledges the public interest in the history of the site.
There are few remnants of the early brewing industry surviving in Brisbane. They include the aforementioned Queensland Brewery building at 501 Anne Street, Fortitude Valley and the frontage of the former Carlton Uniting Brewery in Brunswick Street (1906) which has been retained in a later development. Remnants of the Perkins Brewery in Mary Street are limited to a circa 1901 building purchased by Perkins & Co. in 1899 at 138 Mary Street and the former Perkins stables at 124 Mary Street. Both are entered on the Queensland Heritage Register.
Although a brewery has been located on this site since the 1870s the earliest surviving structures remaining are the former brewing tower building and brick cold stores which possibly predate the 1920s. Today, the main masonry buildings and signage along Milton Road provide a dominant visual statement of the significance of the Milton brewery in the history and townscape of Brisbane and the place of XXXX beer as an icon of Brisbane’s popular culture.
Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.
A detail of the small museum of the Tyrolean farm named Bergila, not far from Bruneck (near the lake of Issing). It has been a mugo pine oil distillery for almost a century.
I initially went out to photograph sunrise but I really do love old structures and the Dummett Plantation Mill definitely falls into that category. I wish it wasn't behind a fence so I could explore it even more. As it was, in order to get the photograph I wanted, I had to remove the lens from my camera, slide it through a crack in the gate, put it back together and then take the photo.
In it's heyday, The Dummett Plantation grew roughly 2,000 acres of sugarcane to be distilled into rum. It was built in 1825 and was where the first steam-powered cane crushing mill was put into operation thus helping to bring the Industrial Revolution to the growing United States.
Unfortunately, not much is left of the plantation. It was burned to the ground during the second Seminole War (www.britannica.com/event/Second-Seminole-War)
They say the site is haunted by active spirits but unfortunately, I was not privileged to experience any of that.
Corowa Distilling Co. - The distillery is situated inside an abandoned flour mill purchased for $1.00 on the premise that it was restored to its former glory. The restored flour mill is also home to Corowa Chocolate Factory...does life get any better when you have Whisky and Chocolate production under the same roof! Dean has taken on local Beau Schilg as their Master Distiller. Beau born and bred in the region is absolutely chuffed to be on board. Over 100 casks have been rested in 2016 so we might see Whisky releases surfacing from 2018 onwards.
Evi Vingerling, "Distilling a few words", at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam, the exhibition of the Caldic Collection, 2011
A distillery in Bomaderry, just north of Nowra.
A hand held pano that was converted to B+W by extracting the luminosity masks and blending them.
Not to make any fun at all of the distilling company who have been doing awesome stuff during the crisis.
I had been photographing in the Connellsville, PA area but the light was not good. On the way home, just as I was passing through Broad Ford, home of old Overholt Distillery, the sun came out in all it's glory. This was taken from across the RR tracks of one of the abandoned buildings.
Lavande sur le point d'être distillée...
Distillation traditionnelle du Riou - GAEC du Riou - Valensole
10/52
Frozen is the theme for the Project 52 - 2017 group.
At least I thought about this weeks :) Execution is a bit off tho. I was hoping the water in the humidifier was distilled but obviously not!
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Kodak TMAX400 rated @ EI 400
Zero Image 5x4 Pinhole
50mm focal length (2 sections)
0.28mm pinhole
Stearman Press SP445 Tank
Pre-wash : None
Developed : FX55 50A + 10B + 440 Water : 15 mins @ 21C
2 x Water Stop Bath
Alkali Fix. Clearing time 2½ minutes
Total Fix time doubled to 5 minutes
Wash for 10 mins in frequent water changes
Ilfotol + distilled water rinse (1ml in about 500ml) : 2 mins
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While in Breckenridge, we toured the Breckenridge Distillery, which produces a variety of high quality spirits. I consider their bourbon the best I have ever tasted.
Another cool photo taken by my little brother, Duffy. He delivers supplies to this distillery in Newport, Tennessee. Very cool canopy over the entrance.
52 by 52 Challenge #9 Take a natural scene and distill it down into its fundamental components to make the simplest and strongest statement. Fran Halsall
Distilled the best shots from 6/14/2016
HDR 3 shots: EV -2…0…+2
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The whisky was distilled on the 7th of June 2007, and bottled on the 5th of February 2019, having been matured in a pair of Hogsheads. The result is a crisp, fruity dram that delivers notes of apples, pears, vanilla, burnt nuts (a classic Blair Athol flavour), crunchy malt, milk chocolate, toffee, slight oak, orange rind and a little spice. Bottled at 43% ABV for a touch more body and flavour, this is a refreshing, well-balanced whisky.
Christmas Day, 12/25/2021, Sunnyside, NY
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Independent Distilling Company
Decatur (Agnes Scott Historical District ), Georgia, USA.
28 January 2023.
▶ At some point in the past, there was a small church in one of three buildings now comprising the distillery. This is a mural in that building.
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Independent Distilling Company
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia.
3 August 2019.
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At last, Scapa Distillery in Orkney has a visitor Centre after all these years.
This one is a 3 shot portrait Pano. I cropped the sky to try and lead your eye up through the grass to the building and decided on B&W to give it a bit of "punch".
toronto distillery district ~ a new store opening soon, the sign in the window about the opening soon paints the type onto the sidewalk in reverse once it gets dark, I don't think they even know what cool piece they have created.
5 exposure hdr....
Distilling a suitable description for Vatican City down to a short phrase or even a concluding paragraph might be more daunting a challenge than any of the more gratuitous papal commissions of the Renaissance. The variety of lenses from which you can view this piece – be they cultural, historical, architectural, religious, spiritual, scientific, or artistic – ultimately result not in one succinct hierarchy, but in the inescapable conclusion that none of these can be disentangled from the next. The physical structures and shared knowledge borne from their construction are each their own forms of accretion spanning three millennia. The spiritual resonance brought on by the artistic inspiration inherent within each seemingly lifeless block of sculpted marble and every superficially two-dimensional fresco is undeniably a vital creative force of its own. Whether some would call this faith and spirituality, or whether others would ascribe it to creative urges and access to shared knowledge is not for me to ascertain. What I will point out is that none of these are mutually exclusive and are all, indeed, fundamental elements of what I would call the Microcosm of Humanity that is Vatican City. It would be specious to dismiss or to focus on any one aspect over another as the greater whole is certainly a work a tutto tondo, in the round. After all, as a certain capomaestro once said, “The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include.” These words of Michelangelo ring true in every physical and metaphysical aspect of the Vatican – just as they most certainly do for anyone looking at a handful of LEGO bricks wondering what to make with them.
The home of The Helsinki Distilling Company, which we passed on the way to lunch that day. The whole compound is now a fancy food park thing, but in the past used to be an abattoir apparently.
I don’t drink hard liquor, but I got a kick out of the signage at this place on West King in St. Augustine. Leica R4, Adox Scala 50 (developed as a negative), Rodinal 1:50.
Coming soon!
Independent Distilling Company
Decatur (Agnes Scott Historical District), Georgia, USA.
12 February 2022.
▶ Side view: here.
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▶ In 2014, Independent opened at 731 E. College Avenue, Decatur, Georgia. Work has now commenced a few blocks west, at 547 E. College Avenue, to transform a former auto service garage into the artisinal distillery's new, larger digs.
▶ As the building appeared in 2020 (when still an auto repair shop): here.
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Distilled winter's day in West Kirby.
Beautiful winter's day... so still and the sun was shining.... couldn't ask for much more.
Louisville, TN
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Chita is Suntory's grain distillery. The flagship release is aged in a combination of wine, sherry and bourbon casks. This is a light whisky with subtle notes of mint, honey and wood spice.~ www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/37317/suntory-chita-whisky
Yamazaki Single Malt 12-Year-Old Whisky "is a medium-bodied whisky with the aromas of dried fruits and honey. It has a delicate, mellow taste with a lingering, woody, dry finish.~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamazaki_distillery
Kaiyo is a negotiant bottler started by a drinks group led by former Asahi employee Mr. Watanabe who was able to purchase "teaspooned" malt whisky barrels from an unnamed Japanese whisky supplier via his connections in the industry ("teaspooning" is when a distiller adds a teaspoon of another whisky into the barrel before selling it, thus preventing the purchaser from claiming it as a single malt from that distillery). The whiskies are purchased as teaspooned new make (unaged distillates) and then put into Japanese Mizunara oak barrels from Ariake, considered one of the best manufacturers in the world. ~ www.klwines.com/p/i?i=1326846
Yanagita Distillery’s signature 100% barley shochu is aged for 1-3 years in famed Japanese Mizunara oak. The ageing imparts a beautiful golden colour and a silkiness to the final product that is reminiscent of fine Japanese whiskey but has the inherent koji richness and umami distinctive to shochu. ~ www.skurnik.com/sku/barley-shochu-mizunara-yanagita-disti...
Three cheers to Friday and the weekend ahead!
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