This past Saturday I had the very fun experience of visiting a vodka distillery in Wisconsin. It's located about an hour from where I live in Minnesota. It was a cool, little place with friendly people and a tasty product(or three).

You can visit as well, http://www.45thparallelspirits.com/

They have several unique distinctions including being one of the few distilleries that makes everything from scratch. The farm that grows their corn is right down the street and right smack on the 45th Parallel. They even get the lids for some of their bottles from a company next door as they try to keep everything they can local. I think that is really cool!

Here our tour guide is giving us a little show of how they make the gin. Which, I liked quite a bit. It had a very light juniper flavor, a nice change as sometimes the juniper can be a little over whelming.

The owners are moving into making whiskey. These barrels can also be used to make your own custom blend(if you can afford it that is).

I was quite happy to try the vodka and to take home a bottle of Midwest Gin and Madison Avenue Limoncello-the company's sweet addition and I'm pretty sure everyone on the tour bought a bottle as it is only available at the distillery. Yum!