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#93 Is This The World's Best Distillery? Capreolus, Eau De Vie, Inadequacy, Capturing Nature, King Charles, Baby's Heads - Barney Wilczak

Podcast: The Curious Bartender Podcast · Tristan Stephenson

Opublikowano: 2026-08-31

Barney Wilczak spent the first part of his career as a conservation photojournalist, building a media library of habitat restoration for botanic gardens around the world, and then, in what he calls his first midlife crisis, walked away from it to convert the lean-to greenhouse of his childhood home in Cirencester into Capreolus Distillery. In this episode we sit just outside that greenhouse, going deep on what happens when you commit entirely to representing fruit rather than making alcohol: wild fermentation with no cultivated yeast or added enzymes, hand-grading tens of thousands of kilos of fruit a...