ADI Conference Registration:
Early Bird Discount
Join us in Portland, Oregon!
Main Conference:
March 26-28, 2018
Pre/Post Conference
workshops:
March 24 to March 29
Gin Summit: March 24
Draft Schedule online now.
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ADI Judging of Craft Spirits:
Only 4 DAYS*
left for
Early Bird Registration
Enter your spirits in the
12th Annual ADI Judging of Craft Spirits, the largest and most-respected judging of craft spirits.
*Save $50 per spirit through December 24, 2017
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New Releases,
Events & Milestones
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Cane Land Distilling Co.
releases Rhum Agricole
Walter Tharp, founder and President of Cane Land Distilling announced the release of their newest spirit, Rhum Agricole, which will be available starting December 22nd. Most rum is made from molasses, which is shelf-stable. Rhum Agricole is made from fresh-pressed sugarcane juice,
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Cedar Ridge part of The American Spectator's Holiday Gift Recommendations
Iowa's Cedar Ridge Distillery, which won the American Distilling Institute's distillery of the year award, offers the whiskey lover a veritable smorgasbord. They make a wheat whiskey, a bourbon, a malted rye whiskey, two single malts, and an unaged whiskey. Get the oh-so-givable American Whiskey Explorer package.
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Deschutes Brewery and Bendistillery announce second Black Butte Whiskey release
Oregon's Bendistillery and Deschutes Brewery have released the 2017 batch of their Black Butte Whiskey. The whiskey, a collaboration between the two Bend, Oregon - based industry pioneers, is an American malt whiskey distilled from Deschutes' flagship Black Butte ...
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Town Branch Distillery is at the forefront of the exciting trend [of the Kentucky's craft distilleries casting a spotlight on other locally produced spirits] and is set to release Town Branch Gin to round out its portfolio of spirits.
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Charles St. Apple Brandy undergoes a change
The Baltimore Whiskey Company's spirit has a new look.
We love the Charles St. Apple Brandy. It's the world's only Mezcal style apple spirit, now packaged as Fumus Pumila: Wood Smoked Apple Spirit.
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Saint Lawrence Spirits whiskey
Saint Lawrence Spirits
has harvested it's first 30 and 50-gallon barreled products. Produced with 100% New York State Grains: Corn Harvested from their family ranch, Rye & Wheat Harvested from Sackets Harbor, NY and remaining grains sourced from Batavia, NY.
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Whiskey Review: One Eight Distilling Rock Creek Bourbon
...Historically important for the Rock Creek series - which includes the bourbon reviewed here - the Rock Creek area was also the site of various rye, corn and barley farms and several mills. The One Eight Distilling Rock Creek Rye and Bourbon are heralded as the first of their kind to be made "grain to glass" in D.C. proper since Prohibition..
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Choo Choo! Whiskey Train tickets on sale in SF
Seven Stills' Whiskey Train is set to roll through San Francisco on February 10, 2018.
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In honor of National Sangria Day on December 20, here are six sangria tequila cocktails selected by Azuñia Tequila. Mix up a pitcher of your favorite!
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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 various newsstands. Contact us for copies for your tasting room or gift shop.
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2018 ADI vendor advertising/exhibit info.
Contact
Matt Jelen for advertising, exhibit and Vendor Expo registration info.
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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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Distilled Spirits Council lauds Tax Reform's Federal Excise Tax reduction on beverage alcohol
December 20, 2017, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Distilled Spirits Council today issued the following statement from Council President & CEO Kraig R. Naasz on congressional passage of a two-year version of the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act as included in the comprehensive tax reform package, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
"The Distilled Spirits Council commends U.S. House and Senate leaders and their colleagues for approving the
Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act as part of the
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This legislation reduces the federal excise tax on distilled spirits producers for the first time since the Civil War, which will enable the more than 1,300 operating distilleries nationwide to re-invest in their businesses and stimulate job growth in their communities
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Congratulations to the Distilled Spirits Council, Ralph Erenzo, Bill Owens, Justin Stiefel, Frank Coleman, Kraig Naasz, Nicole Austin, Melkon Khosrovian, Stephen Gould and all the other people who have worked so hard to make tax parity for craft distillers become a reality!
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Year-end Survey of US Craft Distillers:
your input needed!
by Michael Kintslick, Coppersea Distilling
We're collecting data from all US craft spirits producers.
Please take a minute to participate! ADI's anonymous survey is the industry's most comprehensive poll of actual craft distillers and the most-quoted source of information on the growth of the industry. The economic data is used by countless distilleries to make business plans and attract financing for expansion by demonstrating the viability of the industry. It is truly the survey that launched a thousand business plans. The ADI Survey is constantly quoted in magazines, newspapers and web sites, helping to elevate the respect that craft distillers earn. The answers help us inform legislators, policy makers, suppliers and distillers themselves.
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Vapor Distillery captures the essence
of
Colorado and Scotland
by Linnea Covington,
Westword
It's not every day you can find American spirits created in a traditional Scottish Forsyths still, but at Vapor Distillery in Boulder, the whiskey passes through a copper pot from the respected manufacturer before being aged and bottled. The man behind the machine is Alastair Brogan, also a Scottish import, who made his way to Boulder in 2012 with the goal of getting into the booze business. After surveying the American whiskey scene, he decided to partner with master distiller Ted Palmer to create some pretty tasty tipples.
"I was literally going to find a place in Boulder with my still and make single-malt. So I went around and met everyone," says Brogan. "Ted was fantastic, an old school brewer turned distiller."
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Visions of sugar cane
by Connie Connolly, Star Democrat
Visions of sugar cane still are dancing in the heads of Lyon Distilling Company's team, which flew south to see how the sweet stuff that flavors their rums is grown and processed.
Owner Jaime Windon took her team to Belle Rose, La., for a four-day research jaunt Nov. 12 to 15 to the sugar cane fields and processing factory, a 90-minute drive west of New Orleans. "It was such a cool trip," Courtney Gorman said. "We're so excited in all the photos throughout the factory; we look like these big dorks, but I'm like, how many people get to see a huge manufacturing factory - it was something straight out of London in the '30s."
...With co-founder Ben Lyon, Windon's St. Michaels company distills craft whiskey and rum. The company celebrated its fourth anniversary on Dec. 7.
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A fresh take on old spirits: This SOB's revolutionary distillery story by The Shires of Vermont Bennington Area Chamber
Founded in 2014, Spirits of Old Bennington [SOB] is a Southern Vermont Distillery focused on "Distilling Vermont Traditions to Perfection." Spirits of Old Bennington was born out of Vermont's "Revolutionary" traditions. The spirits embody the complex character of the Shires of Vermont region. The ghosts of Vermont's past and agricultural roots guide their crafting of the highest quality artisanal spirits. From battlefields to taverns to the covered bridges that gave cover to Prohibition-era bootleggers, the distillery engages local farmers, artists and innovative businesses to establish their supply chain for ingredients and build their brand. In true revolutionary spirit and like the Green Mountain Boys themselves, SOB is storming the craft distilling market with their premium, unique-flavored gins, rums and cocktails.
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Bill's Corner
Miscellany from
ADI Founder/President, Bill Owens
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
from Bill Owens and the staff of ADI
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