He went very close, peering into the captain's eyes, causing him to step back warily, hard against the copper stills.

Showing off their new 5,000-square-foot plant and their gleaming, custom-made copper stills earlier this month, the pair appeared to be having fun.

Vineyards surround the 60 white stone houses here, and in sheds behind a third of the homes older men were firing up their copper stills.

This is the only traditional distillery (2) left, using copper stills that are more than 100 years old.

Their downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee facility features two working copper stills.

He uses antique copper stills, which were not built for speed.

Each distillation takes place in small copper stills which have the capacity to produce just over 100 bottles.

A small-batch vodka that is produced in copper stills.

There are free tours of the old distillery's atmospheric rooms, which still contain ancient jars and copper stills.

The process is carried out in copper stills called ' Degs' as was done centuries ago.