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JIM CORNISH of Harpswell drives a vintage 1938 McCormick Deering grain binder Wednesday at Crystal Springs Farm in Brunswick, cutting barley that will be used by a Portland distillery to make whiskey. With help from his two Belgian draft horses, Marcus and Gus, Cornish cut the seeded tops, inset, off the grain stalks and his grandsons, Joseph Kane, 15, and Sage Carpenter, 16, as well as Cr ystal Springs apprentice Conor McNamara, stacked the shocks of barley in rows throughout the field to dry. After drying, the shocks will be threshed and the grains used in Maine Craft Distilling’s “50 Mile Whiskey” — so named because all of the ingredients are produced within 50 miles of its Fox Street location. Maine Craft Distilling, which opened for business on July 3, is owned by Freeport residents Nathaniel “Luke” Davidson and his wife, Kim. Video@timesrecord.com
JIM CORNISH of Harpswell drives a vintage 1938 McCormick Deering grain binder Wednesday at Crystal Springs Farm in Brunswick, cutting barley that will be used by a Portland distillery to make whiskey. With help from his two Belgian draft horses, Marcus and Gus, Cornish cut the seeded tops, inset, off the grain stalks and his grandsons, Joseph Kane, 15, and Sage Carpenter, 16, as well as Cr ystal Springs apprentice Conor McNamara, stacked the shocks of barley in rows throughout the field to dry. After drying, the shocks will be threshed and the grains used in Maine Craft Distilling’s “50 Mile Whiskey” — so named because all of the ingredients are produced within 50 miles of its Fox Street location. Maine Craft Distilling, which opened for business on July 3, is owned by Freeport residents Nathaniel “Luke” Davidson and his wife, Kim. Video@timesrecord.com
 
 

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