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Moonshine Mystic, Rural Missouri
Moonshine Mystic by Rural Missouri Magazine (click here for article link)
417 Magazine Whiskey Fest 2012
417 Magazine (link), Big Cedar Lodge (link)
Distillery Continues Ozarks Tradition
“Blansit may use some new equipment, but his techniques are centuries old. He said he considers it a privilege to continue to educate the public about the skill and ingenuity of the men who comprise a significant part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Branson Tri-Lakes News, heritage of the Ozarks, Moonshine, Ozarks traditions
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Cindy Woolf at Copper Run
She works at Copper Run Distillery in Walnut Shade and frequently plays there with Bilyeu on Sunday afternoons. They plan to record the songs there, and Bilyeu will produce the CD — quick and simple, with no specific deadline. “Something … Continue reading
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Tagged Cindy Woolf, Springfield News Leader, top shelf moonshine
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Copper Run Distillery: It’s About Quality, Not Quantity! – OzarksFirst.com
Copper Run Distillery: It’s About Quality, Not Quantity! – OzarksFirst.com. (open title in new tab or window to view video)
Giving Green For The Holidays
Article from Greene Magazine encouraging local Holiday gifts. Greene Magazine (link)
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Tagged Greene Magazine, holiday moonshine, holiday rum, holiday whiskey, shop local for the holidays
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Missouri Life
“Sippin’ History At Copper Run” by Sandy Clark, photo by Mark Scheifelbein. Article in Missouri Life Magazine, October 2011. For link to Missouri Life click here.
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Tagged corn liquour, Missouri LIfe Magazine, Ozark mountain history, Sandy Clark, traditional moonshine, Whiskey
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Young President’s Organization at Copper Run Distillery
Private party catered by Farmer’s GastroPub (link) , exquisite food! Live music from The Guise. Great cocktails by Mixologist Steven Smith.
First Friday Art Walk, August
Complementary Rum tasting paired with truffles infused with Copper Run Rum. Elle’s Patisserie (link)
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Tagged chocolate, Elle´s Patisserie, First Friday Art Walk, rum, rum chocolates, truffles
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eat, drink and be merry
Thank you to everybody who came to enjoy the YMCA benefit at Murder Rock
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Tagged Big Smith, charity event, Murder Rock Golf Course, tasting
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Taste and Science
At The Discovery Center view video here: KOLR10 link to Discovery Center
KOLR10 News
see video at link here: OzarksFirst.com
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Tagged interview Jim Blansit, KOLR 10 News
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Wild Card Best of Rural Missouri
Copper Run was voted Rural Missouri´s winner of the Southwest best of Wild Card. linked here: http://www.ruralmissouri.org
Distillation Workshop MSU
link to the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station
Addy Awards
Creativore took Gold for best package with the Moonshine label and Silver with the Rum at the Addy Awards. It was a great evening finished off with a fearless snowball fight. p.s. Aris knows… go european, try the moonshine freezing … Continue reading
RUMMMMMMMMM
With our Shine good and stocked, Copper Run is switching gears from Moonshine production to RUM, yum. The smell of molasses cooking is divine! Here Jim is cleaning the still preparing for the next month of Rum distilling.
Cotton In
T-Shirts | Long-Sleeves | Hoodies ooooopsss………..I couldn’t find the camera and so had to take the picture with the webcam, its a little artistic more importantly the hoodies are cozy on these cold days!
Eat Yellow Snow
It was snowing in Ozarks yet again in 2011, so beautiful with rainbow sparkles fluttered and piled everywhere. When it does snow, one must get out and enjoy it, fall down in it, try making a face print, write your … Continue reading
Fruit Moonshine Infusion
Apple moonshine spice cake made with apples that had been soaking 3 weeks in moonshine, served with a glass of the the apple moonshine. A new batch of cherry moonshine getting started with a glass of the last of my … Continue reading
American Craft Spirits Interview
An Interview with Jim Blansit, Owner and Artisan Distiller at Copper Run Distillery, in Walnut Shade, MO. read full interview at following link: americancraftspirits.com American Craft Spirits: Some of the best oak in the world which is used to age … Continue reading
KSPR News Coverage
Video featured by KSPR that can also be viewed at Worldnews Distilleries(link)
American Craft Spirits Score
Score: 88 “The IU building where I work is very close to a large WPA-era Victorian-style greenhouse, a place where I often retreat during the cold, gray months, when there’s no discernible difference between morning and afternoon light. Once inside, … Continue reading
Missouri Vacation Magazine
“It started at age 13, when Blansit and his brother were growing up on their grandparents’ land in Walnut Shade. Their mother always whipped up things like homemade ketchup or peanut butter. “I always knew I could make anything I … Continue reading
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Tagged distillery, homemade, Missouri Vaction Magazine, Moonshine, More Than Moonshine, ozark mountians, rum, Whiskey
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American Distilling Institute 2010, Whiskey and Moonshine Distilling Conference
“An underlying trend in this year’s sessions was a marked increase in topics dealing with artisan whiskeys from an international perspective.” –MODERN DISTILLERY AGE WEEKLY (LINK) image from Whiskey Intelligence (link) Jim with Lincoln Henderson Master Distiller, Sherman Owen Artisan … Continue reading
and we don’t care
Jimmy usually cracks the corn, but today Ricard and Charity cracked corn while the master was gone away. Our corn comes from a local farm in Rogersville and is cracked by us here at Copper Run just before fermenting so … Continue reading
Creativore Labels
moonshine on bear creek by David Blansit studio image by Steven Smith labels thanks to Creativore
417 Magazine
“More Than Moonshine” article from 417Mag.com(LINK) “It started at age 13, when Blansit and his brother were growing up on their great grandparents’ land in Walnut Shade. Their mother always whipped up things like homemade ketchup or peanut butter. ‘I … Continue reading
Modern Moonshine Techniques, Bill Owens
Book by Bill Owens (link) contribution by Jim Blansit http://www.distillery.com (link) Directory of Craft Distillers (link)
Suki reincarnated as Kiah, new dog round the still
Suki left us after years of being the best dog in the world and Kiah found us.
The Distillery and Friends
last days with Suki Our friends had stopped by to purchase some of our fine spirits. Nancy took a few awesome photos of the building and still. I wanted to share a few of them with you. Hopefully we will … Continue reading
August 21st, Family and Friends, by the fire
Jim´s arms around wife Laura & daughters Jeni and Morgan
Preparing for Friends and Family
Jim Blansit Sr. mounting barrels for future sign Dave should also be presented in a photo here, but… Labeling with 1st provisional labels Setting up the still for making a Rum run
Downstairs Tasting Room
Tasting room painted by Laura… bar built mostly by Big Jim using old barrel staves for the bar, barn wood for the walls and tin for the ceiling from great granpa Chet’s long … Continue reading
The Building Crew
The Crew: Jim Blansit Sr. and Jr. and Dave Alviar (missing Ricard Solà, the food and water girls Lois and Charity Blansit, Laura and all the ones who gave a helping hand here and there) Raising the roof with Ricard Dave … Continue reading
