User:Crispin I. Cain/sandbox

Crispin Ian Cain, born December 20, 1962, at Santa Maria California, is the President of Greenway Distillers, Inc. and Tamar Distillery, Inc. aka American Craft Whiskey Distillery. Crispin began his adult carreer as a Vista Volunteer in the Peace Corp assigned to Social Advocates for Youthat their Klein Bottle Shelter for Runaways and Troubled Youth in Santa Maria California, where he served for nearly two years. He then went on to work at a bakery while living in an intentional community near Pismo Beach California. It was at this time he met his first wife, Carole Henderson, the mother of their two childreen, Crispin D. Cain (b. 08/20/1984) and Devin O. Cain (b. 05/23/1986). During 1983 Crispin and his wife settled in Livermore, CA where he went to work in a furniture factory applying finishes to wood. Soon, Crispin also Found work at the Villa Armando Winery in Pleasanton, California, as well. In 1984, Cain went to work at Cooper Laser Sonics, Plasma Kinetics Division, applying finishes to frames and exteriors of the lasers and power supplies. He duties soon included assembly of the power supplies and the wiring harnesses that make them go. Crispin had a yearning to discover what he feels is his "true path in life" in the early to mid 1980's. He was very happy to have a family of his own, but was very unhappy in his relationship with his firt wife. In the Fall of 1985, he left his jobs in Livermore and Pleasanton, took his family to live in Mendocino County, California. In 1987, Crispin went to work at Hidden Cellars Winery, near Ukiah, California. Cain was also a student at Mendocino College at this time where he majored in Accounting. He served several terms on the Mendocino College Student Council. During August 1989, Crispin, who had by now worked at a number of wineries during bottling, and had mastered barrel fermentation of white wines, received a call from someone at Alambic, Inc. asking if he would come to an interview with the brandy master, Hubert Germain-Robin. Crispin was Hubert's assistant in the distillery for a number of years before he went to help start Gabrielli Winery in Redwood Valley, California. During 1992 Crispin met and fell in love with his current partner, Tamar Kaye. Crispin went back to the distillery by 1997, accepting a seat as second assistant. Crispin was not able to mesh with the management style being used in the distillery, yet he felt compelled to continue to learn all he can about the subject. He began reading every text he find old and new on the subject of practical alchemy. In 1991 he acquired equipment at home to make herb extracts and began creating a number of different essential oils and hydrosols from simple kitchen herbs. Crispin and Tamar came up with the concept from Crispin's Rose Liqueur during the Summer of 2000, while attending a Rennaisance Faire near Black Point California on the San Francisco Bay. Together they began experimenting with the variety of roses available to them at the time, near 100 different roses were tried with numerous different sources of spiritous alcohol, from peaches and grapes and eventually from apples, all to create something wonderful and consistantly pleasing. Greenway Distillers, Inc. was incorporated early in 2005. The Charente Method of distillation Crispin learned from Hubert has its' roots in alchemy. Some of the oldest records of this are older than 500 years as of this writing in 2013. Crispin has by now logged thousands of hours of producing spirits using traditional methods from fermentation to distillation to ageing and blending of fine spirits. Crispin's companies, now staffed by himself, his current wife, Tamar Kaye, and his two grown sons, Devin Cain and Dylan Cain. Together they are responsible for creating Crispin's Rose Liqueur, Greenway Distillers/Germain-Robin Absinthe, Low Gap Whiskey, Fluid Dynamics Barrel Aged Cocktails, and Russell Henry Gin.