2018 ADI vendor advertising/exhibit info.
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ADI Judging of Craft Spirits
Enter your spirits in the
12th Annual ADI Judging of Craft Spirits, the largest and most-respected judging devoted to craft spirits. Winners to be announced at the 2018 ADI Conference in Portland, OR.
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Rock Town Sorghum Whiskey named in Top 100 Spirits list
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New Releases,
Events & Milestones
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Organic Absinthe Supérieure Blanche launches with Tasting Dec. 14th in Oakland, CA
Absinthia's Bottled Spirits, LLC, a 100% woman owned spirits business, launches its first product, a certified organic absinthe blanche, Absinthe Supérieure Blanche.
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Introducing Boston Harbor's
Putnam Single Malt Whiskey
Putnam Single Malt is BHD's first whiskey ever made in house. Since August 2015 it has been maturing in 53 gallon new American oak barrels and is finally ready for you to enjoy.
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Bottled cocktails are now available for carry-out at the Cardinal Spirits! Each bottle is filled with 4 ready-to-drink cocktails.
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Don Ciccio & Figli relaunches Donna Rosa Rabarbaro
RaBarbarRo, a rhubarb liqueur in an aperitivo style. Donna Rosa is a bitter aperitivo based on an infusion of three types of rhubarb roots from around the world, honeysuckle, rose petals from California and 17 selected botanicals...
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The Boot Flask: this season's perfect stocking stuffer
Boots and bourbon - can you think of a better holiday pair? We [Garrison Brothers Distillery] can't either! So, we combined the two to create our Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey Boot Flask.
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Blackwater Distilling expansion plans include new bar and food service offering
Blackwater Distilling, Maryland's first fully-licensed alcohol distillery since 1972, announced plans to relocate and expand, opening a new tavern visible from Route 50 on Kent Island, MD.
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Marble Distilling opens Aspen Tasting Room and releases Hoover's Revenge Rye
Marble Distilling Co. announces the first release of Hoover's Revenge: Ragged Mountain Rye. The first bottle release of Hoover's will be held in conjunction with the opening of a second tasting room for Marble Distilling in downtown Aspen.
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Oak Master® Alternative Infusion Closures claim to age a spirit in a matter of weeks
When Sammy Soriano, owner of Oak Master® Lab, came along in 2016 with his Alternative Infusion Closures, an invention he claimed could age a spirit in a matter of weeks, it created a storm of controversy.
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Iron Smoke Distillery taps national talent
Iron Smoke Distillery, recipient of a 95.5 rating in the 2018 Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible (for Iron Smoke Whiskey), is pleased to announce that food and beverage industry veteran, Tom Riggio will serve as President.
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Let the Alaska Alcoholic Beverage Control Board know that you support Alaska's craft distilleries today.
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The Trailer Park Boys visit Nelson's Green Brier Distillery in newest episode
Check out the newest Trailer Park Boys episode for one memorable distillery visit and their first Tennessee whiskey tasting (featuring a cameo by Charlie Nelson!)
Episode 6, Nashville, on Netflix.
More info.
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5-Day Distillery Training Course in Atlantic City, NJ
January 22 - 26, 2018
Stockton University Continuing Studies is offering a five-day course with both process theory discussions and hands-on distillery operations orientation.
More info.
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2018 US Rum Fests: Exhibit & grow your craft rum brand
Exhibit & grow your craft rum brand at the 2018 US Rum Fests! 500 to 600 people attend each city. Choose from Chicago, New York, San Francisco, or Seattle. For more info, contact Jaclyn Beazley at Tastings.com who is co-producer in Chicago.
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Contract distilling available
Vic Caledonian offers contract distilling as well as a private cask program.
More info
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ADI map of distilleries
on Distilling.com
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Fall issue of Distiller magazine on newsstands
Distiller is available at 400 retail locations including Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and other newsstands. Contact us for copies for your tasting room or gift shop.
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ADI's Certification Program now has
2,812 spirits listed!
Apply today
and join the 578 micro-distilleries who are truly
craft.
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Survey of Tasting Room laws for Craft Distilleries
[revised since first published in Distiller magazine]
The information in this survey was collected from distillers and state alcohol control boards; it reflects the most current information available at the time of writing. Due to the hard work of motivated distillers, distillers guilds and state representatives these laws are continuing to be debated and modified to meet the needs and interests of all stakeholders in their locality. If any of these laws or details have changed, please contact [email protected] with the correction or update.
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Wine rescued from dumping becomes vodka
and other spirits
by Lisa Futterman, Chicago Tribune
Winemakers often bleed off some juice before fermentation as a sacrifice to intensify the resulting wine and get a better concentration of color. Called saignée (literally "bleeding"), this runoff is sometimes used to make rosé wine but more often is simply discarded, expensively and wastefully, and treated in septic systems to prevent damage to the neighboring soils.
At RE:Find Distillery in California's Central Coast region, Alex and Monica Villicana have found another use for this tasty grape juice - making spirits. They distill the grape juice they used to discard during production of zinfandels and syrahs, among other varieties, at their winery, creating truly local gin and vodka from Paso Robles.
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Distillers across country accuse Boise, Idaho business of breaking contracts
by Audrey Dutton, Idaho Statesman
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These videos provided by Stumpy's Spirits Distillery in Columbia, Illinois, show the aftermath of an incident involving the company's then-new still, built by Corson Distilling Systems of Boise.
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Distilleries from around the country are accusing a Boise business of breaking promises and wasting their money.
Corson Distilling Systems
has been sued by at least four distilleries in the past 13 months.
The lawsuits, all with some similarities, say Corson failed to produce working equipment - or in some cases, any equipment - after customers paid them. Combined, the customers and their attorneys blame Corson for at least $500,000 in losses and damages, and the deaths of two pet cats.
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Wine shipping law suits may be harbinger
for distilled spirits
by W. Blake Gray
, Wine-Searcher
A concerted effort is underway to to get shipping laws before the Supreme Court.
Here's some good news for wine lovers in middle America: lawsuits have been filed in three states that could allow wine lovers to order wines from any state. And not just by any law firm - it's the same lawyers who opened up the country to direct shipping from wineries.
Currently residents of only 13 states and the District of Columbia can legally order wine online from an out-of-state retail store. This is a big contrast to ordering from a winery: residents of 42 states can order wine from out-of-state wineries.
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courtesy of RoughStock Distillers
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New hub for craft food, drink emerges in a New Orleans neighborhood at a crossroads
by Ian McNulty, The New Orleans Advocate
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| Roulaison Distilling in New Orleans produces rum using pot stills, for a liquor inspired by older styles of island rum. |
For plenty of bartenders, fielding visitor questions about what else to check out in the neighborhood is part of the job. When Jon Moore is working the taps at his Broad Street Cider & Ale, he can answer by pointing.
"When I tell people to visit the rum distillery around the corner, they think I mean down the street, a few blocks away," said Moore, who makes a range of hard ciders on site. "But then I just open the door and show them. It's right there."
Roulaison Distilling Co., which produces a fine, pot still rum, shares a parking lot with the cidery. A wide alley in between seems to connect more than separate them.
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Rising Sun Distillery owner Dawn Nudell Richardson brings a culinary flair to craft spirits
by Gregory Daurer, Company Week
Rising Sun Distillery owner Dawn Nudell Richardson brings a culinary flair to craft spirits and liqueurs while serving as an ambassador for Colorado's growing distilling industry.
"Everything we do has a culinary perspective on it," says Nudell Richardson of her distillery's line of spirits and liqueurs. "I've cooked my whole life and I love the creative element: coming up with cocktail menus; tasting, checking, making adaptations, and figuring out where to get ingredients for each product."
When Rising Sun Distillery launched, Nudell Richardson developed the recipes, while her husband, Sol, did the distilling. (He now works as a software developer.) The Rising Sun name partially reflects that her first name is Dawn and Sol is Latin for sun.
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FYI PHILLY: Two places to visit if you're looking for boozey holiday gifts
by Ducis Rodgers, ABC News/WPVI-TV
Philadelphia, PA: Ducis Rodgers tracked down a couple local craft distillers creating their own holiday spirit with small batch booze.
Five Saints Distilling, Norristown, PA and Brandywine Branch Distillers in Elverson, PA. Watch video.
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Bill's Corner
Miscellany from
ADI Founder/President, Bill Owens
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A look back at Maine Craft Distilling
Wesley Moseman of Maine Craft Distilling talks about work, history and craftsmanship at a Portland, ME distilling startup [at that time].
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Spreading the holiday spirit...
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