Comments on: Long Now building a new bar/coffee shop, raising money with long booze

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:46:00 +0000

I hope you don't live in Texas, as round-bottomed flasks are outlawed there.

By: Tim Drage

Tim Drage — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:31:00 +0000

10,000 years is nothing. If they’re not working on putting their own satellite in geostationary orbit I’m not interested.

By: John Joe

John Joe — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:09:00 +0000

oh my god that glassware is so nice

do want do want do want do want do want do want do want do want

By: dculberson

dculberson — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:03:00 +0000

I love St. George Spirits, but I’ve had their unaged whiskey and I can assure you it needs aged. Barrel aging.

By: Christopher Barker

Christopher Barker — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:06:00 +0000

WOW! Magical juniper bush berries amidst the most ancient bristlecone pine grove! I hope they let me pay them $400 a shot to taste this genius of a marketing plan!

By: Dave X

Dave X — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:16:00 +0000

Shit like this amazes me. Ya’ll have got it WAY too easy in your neck of the woods, at least in terms of raising money for goofy projects. Southern Illinois (look it up, we exist) has an independent community radio station that’s been on-air for over 15 years, and they can barely hit a 13K fundraiser twice a year, let alone raise 69 thousand dollars to pick berries and have a “salon.” You want to think of the future? Picture one in which everything outside of two urban centers, separated by thousands of miles, withers and dies, easy pickings for fear-mongering politicians and fundamentalist vultures. Imagine how it might have been prevented if a handful of people had simply looked up from their special engraved bottle of whiskey and noticed that– with a push, or a hand up– some act of culture and brightness might have gotten a toehold in these otherwise-forgotten places rather than being consigned to something others simply fly over.

By: becausewecan

becausewecan — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 05:16:00 +0000

The bottles are from this amazing laboratory glassware place in Berkeley that’s super old-school: http://www.adamschittenden.com/

The holders we made using out CNC machine. They are cut from California sustainable walnut. Glad you like them!

By: A C

A C — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:44:00 +0000

I love that bottle and holder design! Where did they get them? I would buy that in a heartbeat!

By: Kenmrph

Kenmrph — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 02:36:00 +0000

Yes, with a gin gin (variant of a cotton gin)

By: Alpacaman

Alpacaman — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:34:00 +0000

I do it with my toes

By: Miche

Miche — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:59:00 +0000

Just asking, but….is there any other way to harvest juniper berries other than by hand?

By: raines

raines — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:10:00 +0000

don’t worry, at just a few feet above sea level, it won’t make it 100 years at that location. Long Term Thinking, indeed.

By: Timmy Corkery

Timmy Corkery — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:43:00 +0000

It’s “distilled in such a way that it will be delicious without aging?” Um… hm. That, uh… never mind.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:41:00 +0000

Something tells me this isn’t going to be the kind of coffee shop you should stop by if you’re in a hurry.

Customer: “Is that double cappuccino ready yet? It’s been almost 20 minutes and I’m late for work!”

Barista: “Chill out, man. What’s one scant third of an hour compared to tens of thousands of years of recorded human history?”

By: Dave Pease

Dave Pease — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:14:00 +0000

if this is your kind of thing, carry on, but … what a ridiculous project.

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:40:00 +0000

the irony is spectacular, with a hint of pine.
I picture these once proud bottles sitting on a dusty shelf in a post apocalyptic san francisco wasteland.

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Yes, from a very special tree http://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/the-oldest-living-tree-tells-a.html

;-)

By: Russell

Russell — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Artisanal gin. Hmmm.

By: len

len — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:27:00 +0000

Good to see that the Long Now Foundation is now an avenue for conspicuous consumption. Because if there is one thing that matters in 10,000 years, it’s who got their name on a plaque for throwing a 1%er party.

By: Kenmrph

Kenmrph — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:17:00 +0000

Is the whiskey aged in bristlecone pine barrels?

By: becausewecan

becausewecan — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:13:00 +0000

The gin has *both* pine needles from the brislecones themselves and juniper berries from, well, wild juniper bushes in it. Both were hand-harvested from the clock site in eastern Nevada. It tastes (and smells!) like the mountain. We’ve gotten to taste the prototypes and it’s simply stunning.

It’s akin to another gin St. George made using nothing but botanicals from Mt. Tam. Really captures a particular place!

By: Eksith Rodrigo

Eksith Rodrigo — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:01:00 +0000

While I don’t imbibe, I’ve always been fascinated with the craftsmanship of making these. It feels like a modern progression of alchemy in many ways. You’re turning ingredients into gold, in a manner of speaking.

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:47:00 +0000

I was also aware of the same facts but the two clues in the post would be “pine needles” and “juniper berries”.

By: Sweetdaddy

Sweetdaddy — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:38:00 +0000

I believe you, but how do you even know something like that?

By: sdmikev

sdmikev — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Cool project.
Also, I’d like to highly recommend to anyone in the Bay Area or anyone with some time to spend ’round the Alameda/Oakland area to get over to St. George’s Spirits out on the edge of the island on what was the Naval base. Assuming you like booze. :)

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:32:00 +0000

just in time for year end tax evasion!

By: ROSSINDETROIT

ROSSINDETROIT — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:20:00 +0000

Sounds interesting, but there are some slight deviations from fact here. Juniper berries from bristlecone pine groves are not 5,000 year old pine needles. They’re the seeds of a completely different species.
/pedant