Do the brewmasters drink wine while they e brewing?
Bill: No, they’re the ones that drink scotch. Beer has to be dreadfully clean. White bibs, everything is completely sanitized from start to finish. Winemaking starts off in the vineyard. The grapes come off – we don’t rinse them, there’s dirt, bugs, small children, they all go into the press. We don’t sterile filter it before we add yeast to it. It starts off pretty rough. And yet wine ends up in a fancy restaurant with a white tablecloth and a waiter serving it to you. And beer ends up behind the dumpster at four in the morning, or on some guys couch with the remote and a bag of chips in his lap. Where one starts off really clean and pristine the other starts off with dirt, mud and sweat the both end up at exact opposite extremes. This is a fairly new vineyard, is there a lot of new technology involved? Bill: The high tech stuff is in the vineyard. Winemaking is fairly low tech. Compared to brewing there’s a lot less technology involved. You also buy the ingredients for making beer. B
