For the first time in decades, downtown Montreal is producing whisky.
Sazerac Company’s Old Montreal Distillery is behind this distinction. For more than a year, Sazerac has added in elements for whisky production, installing grain mills and a 4,000-gallon mash cooker, converting existing equipment and hooking up fermenters. A key piece, a new still, was recently installed at the distillery. The still is 18 inches in diameter and 37 feet tall and was made at Vendome in Louisville, Ky.
