San Gobian y Whisky DYC

Today, we had an excursión to the town of La Granja to visit a glass Factory and DYC, a whiskey Factory.  The group had another excursion today and found out there is a lot going on in Segovia within a ten mile radius.  Ebony Edwards and Brittany Stewart will explain it all to you because they are today's guest bloggers.

Brittany, Ebony and the Wolfpack!!!

First, we went to San Gobian in La Granja for a tour of the glass Factory.  We saw the machines that they use to make bottles of perfume because now there is no demand for construction blocks.  The factory never closes and the workers work for six days and then rest for three.

Afterwards, we went to eat at a restaurant where we chose from castillian soup, salad with tuna, pasta with chorizo, chicken, veal and dessert.  Everything was great and after lunch we left for our tour of the whiskey factory.

We arrived at DYC, a whiskey factory. and we learned about the formation of Whiskey.   DYC stands for "Destilerías y Crianza" which refers to the raising and distilling process. 

Before the tour, we learned about the changes in advertisement of DYC over time and then we saw the entire process for making Whiskey and DYC’s products.

We were able to touch the grains that they use for Whiskey and at the end of the tour they let us sample some of the various products they make.  It was very interesting because we had seen the DYC bottles in various places in Segovia.  "All in all it was a good day."  

San Gobain Factory (no photos inside).  :(

Some of the perfume bottles they make

Everyone got free cologne and perfume!
(Our waiter could have used some)

Their symbol which is on everything.

As you can see, it looks better with us in it!

Our tour guide.  She does not like you taking photos.   :)

Sample barrels

Clip from the video we watched

One of the older barrels.  200,000 are housed in the area

Do you speak Spanish?  Then enjoy the blog below, en español!  

Hoy, tuvimos una excursión a La Granja para visitar una fábrica de vidrio y una fábrica de whiskey que se llama DYC. DYC quiere decir "Destilerías y Crianza."

Primero, fuimos a San Gobian en La Granja para una gira de la fábrica de vidrio. Vimos las máquinas que usan para hacer botellas de perfumes porque ahora no hay mucha necesidad de bloques de construcción debido a la crisis. La fábrica nunca se cierra y los obreros trabajan por seis días y descansan por tres días. 

Después, fuimos a comer en un buen restaurante donde noes ofrecieron sopa castellana, ensalada con atún, macarones con chorizo, muslo de pollo, ternera y postre.  Todo estuvo bien rico y nos gustó mucho.   Después salimos para otra gira. 

Llegamos a La Fábrica de Whisky, DYC y aprendimos sobre la formación de whisky.   Antes de la gira, aprendimos de los cambios de anuncios de DYC en el pasado.   Entonces, vimos todo el proceso para hacer Whisky y los productos de DYC e incluso pudimos tocar los granos que usan para fabricar whisky.  Fue muy interesante porque hemos visto las botellas de DYC en varios lugares en Segovia.   En todo, fue un día muy divertido.