Location
This Months Online Meeting will be hosted via Online GoTo Meeting
Please Note:
Meeting URL, Access code and registration info will be provided in your confirmation email after you register for the event.
Please Note:
Meeting URL, Access code and registration info will be provided in your confirmation email after you register for the event.
Presentation Description
OC's First Craft Distillery...Tour and Process Overview
Have you ever thought about how your favorite whiskey, vodka, or gin is made? Proper ingredients and equipment are important. However, each batch requires a signature balance of heating transfer and timing to produce specific spirit types. Orange County’s very first craft distillery has generously provided ASHRAE access to their facility in downtown Santa Ana to host this presentation in April. Our meeting will include an overview and tour of Blinking Owl’s distillation process, heating and cooling systems, energy utilization, and business trends by OC ASHRAE member Ed Mendieta and Blinking Owl’s head distiller Ryan Friesen.
Presented by
Ed Mendieta-PE
VRV Applications Engineer - Daikin North America
Ryan Friesen
Head Distiller/ Blinking Owl Distillery
Have you ever thought about how your favorite whiskey, vodka, or gin is made? Proper ingredients and equipment are important. However, each batch requires a signature balance of heating transfer and timing to produce specific spirit types. Orange County’s very first craft distillery has generously provided ASHRAE access to their facility in downtown Santa Ana to host this presentation in April. Our meeting will include an overview and tour of Blinking Owl’s distillation process, heating and cooling systems, energy utilization, and business trends by OC ASHRAE member Ed Mendieta and Blinking Owl’s head distiller Ryan Friesen.
Presented by
Ed Mendieta-PE
VRV Applications Engineer - Daikin North America
Ryan Friesen
Head Distiller/ Blinking Owl Distillery
Presenter Bios
Presenter Bio
Ed Mendieta is a professional mechanical engineer and ASHRAE-OC member. Ed is a VRV (Variable Refrigerant Volume) Applications Engineer with Daikin North America located in Irvine, California. Ed has gained an appreciation over the years for the distillation process because of his passion for home-brewing over the decades. Ed has delivered beer brewing presentations to Tri-County and Orange County chapter in the past and looks forward to delivering an equally “tasty” distillation presentation in partnership with Blinking Owl.
Ryan Friesen joined the Blinking Owl team in October 2014 and was an integral part of the start up process. After years of perfecting his home beer brewing, Ryan began his distilling career at Journeyman Distillery in Michigan. To enhance his knowledge of the industry, Ryan did an internship at Black Swan Cooperage to learn about the nuances in barrel making. He also had the very rare opportunity to do an internship with the famed Japanese whiskey maker, Ichiro Akuto, at the Chichibu Distillery. Mr. Akuto has made many award winning whiskies and has been touted as one of the best whiskey makers in the world. Ryan is passionate about making quality spirits thoughtfully from the “soil to the glass”.
Ed Mendieta is a professional mechanical engineer and ASHRAE-OC member. Ed is a VRV (Variable Refrigerant Volume) Applications Engineer with Daikin North America located in Irvine, California. Ed has gained an appreciation over the years for the distillation process because of his passion for home-brewing over the decades. Ed has delivered beer brewing presentations to Tri-County and Orange County chapter in the past and looks forward to delivering an equally “tasty” distillation presentation in partnership with Blinking Owl.
Ryan Friesen joined the Blinking Owl team in October 2014 and was an integral part of the start up process. After years of perfecting his home beer brewing, Ryan began his distilling career at Journeyman Distillery in Michigan. To enhance his knowledge of the industry, Ryan did an internship at Black Swan Cooperage to learn about the nuances in barrel making. He also had the very rare opportunity to do an internship with the famed Japanese whiskey maker, Ichiro Akuto, at the Chichibu Distillery. Mr. Akuto has made many award winning whiskies and has been touted as one of the best whiskey makers in the world. Ryan is passionate about making quality spirits thoughtfully from the “soil to the glass”.