These days we are staying in London because we are attending the London Craft Distilling Expo Conference. We are taking this opportunity to receive additional training in rum production. First we visited the Bimber Distillery where a “hands on” rum workshop was organized. At the first mention of the word rum Neven loses that ability […]
Our Startup success hasn’t gone unnoticed in the media. Croatian daily papers from Rijeka, Novi List published a two page story about the startup incubator Demo day, where we won our award. We are also very grateful to the American Distilling Institute for sharing our success story in their latest newsletter and in that way […]
What a week for us! Kapela Distilling Company won “The startup of the year” award, and a 100.000 kuna money prize from the City of Rijeka, Croatia. Wow! 🤪 We just can’t thank enough for all the help and support we received from the Start-up incubator Rijeka, the program we truly and highly recommend. So, what’s next for […]
We have just received our state of the art, iStill Mini 2 lab still. The iStill Mini 2 is the perfect recipe development still. It can help you make whiskey, rum, brandy, gin, vodka, and liqueurs. Recipes designed and tested on the iStill Mini scale up to our bigger production units perfectly. It was a 3500 […]
Another significant recognition for Kapela Distilling Company when Jeff Bradford of Beer, Wine and Spirits decided to film an episode about traditional Croatian fruit brandy distilling with our master distiller, Neven Vorkapic. Neven took the Beer, Wine and Spirits crew to his family’s old countryside estate in the wilderness of Lika region and showed how […]
We are proud to have a story about our co-founder Neven Vorkapic, published by Distiller Magazine, both on paper and online. You can read the whole story written by Neven bellow, together with a few additional photos from Neven’s US journey, which haven’t been published before: Dreams can be overwhelming, but what is left out […]