Reserve your space now: Hands-on Distilling Workshops in Nov/Dec.
Hands-on Whiskey Distilling and Basic Distillery Operation
November 12-16, 2017
Location: McMenamin's Edgefield Distillery - Troutsdale, OR
Instructor: James Whelan, Head Distiller at McMenamin's Edgefield Distillery
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Instructor James Whelan, Head Distiller at McMenamin's Edgefield Distillery
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Blending and Maturation
December 8-9, 2017
Location: Ironroot Republic Distillery, Dennison, TX Instructor: Nancy Fraley
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Registration open for 2018 ADI Judging of Craft Spirits
Enter your spirits in the
12th Annual Judging of Craft Spirits. The largest international spirits competitions devoted to craft.
More info./Register Now
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RockFilter Distillery wins Silver medal from The Fifty Best Rye Whiskey Tasting
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Tom's Town wins USA Today Readers' Choice Award for
Best Craft Vodka Distillery
USA Today's annual Readers' Choice Awards has named Tom's Town Distilling Co. best craft vodka distillery in the United States. "We're over the moon about this award," said David Epstein, Tom's Town owner and co-founder.
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A spirit 7 years in the making - Root Digger bottle release!
Sitting by the camp fire in the crisp autumn air never tasted so good. Cart/horse distilling announces our newest release "Root Digger." A home spun spirit of sugar shine and our specialty root beer blend, made from only whole herbs and spices.
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New Deal rolls out their second straight whiskey!
Our Rye Whiskey, available on October 18th, follows our previously released Wheat Whiskey, and our Bourbon Whiskey will be available this November. We hope you enjoy!
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Ironworks Distillery releases Ocean-aged Rum Boat Rum
All year it has been the worst kept secret in Lunenburg. In January 2017 a mysterious new boat appeared near the entrance of Lunenburg Harbour. No motor, no masts, no cabin, painted black. Rumours spread that the boat was filled with barrels of rum!
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Harvest Happy Hour in Portland, Maine Oct. 20
The Harvest Happy Hour, which will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 20 at Aura, celebrates the rise of craft distilling in Maine. For the first time, Maine's 15 craft distilleries will be all in one spot, serving product samples as well as cocktails paired with local foods.
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Drinking with the Saints - book signing & featured cocktails Oct. 20
Join "Drinking with the Saints" author, Michael P. Foley for a personal book signing event at Balcones Distillery.
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4th Annual Critter Calling Contest at Willie's Distillery
Come join the fun Friday, October 20th at 6:00 pm following the Hunters Feed. Come compete with your best animal calls in 5 different categories.
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Murder in the Meetinghouse at Liberty Pole Spirits
The Ohio Valley Cloak & Dagger Company, in partnership with Striplight Theatre, presents "The Last Song of the Gypsies," an original paranormal mystery written and directed by area playwright Pete Fernbaugh.
October 27, 2017
in the Meetinghouse Show at 7 p.m.
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Rebecca Creek Distillery partners with Spurs 2017-18
Rebecca Creek Distillery's collaboration with the San Antonio Spurs marks its second partnership with a major league sports team this year. In April 2017, Rebecca Creek Saloon opened at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, home of the Texas Rangers baseball team.
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Heritage Distilling founder co-hosts weekly Wine/Beer
/Spirits radio show
News-Talk KIRO-F/SEATTLE is adding a wine, spirits, cocktails, and beer show to its SATURDAY schedule and podcast roster, "CASK CLUB RADIO."
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Want to help TTB make COLAs and Permits Online easier for you to use?
TTB wants to make getting your approvals as simple as possible. We are looking for volunteers to give us feedback on COLAs Online and Permits Online. You may participate in one or both studies.
Info.
Disaster Relief - California Wildfires
TTB recognizes that the devastation caused by natural disasters may severely impact the operations. We've compiled some important information and resources to assist you. More info.
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All in the family: craft distillers
In addition to those we listed last week, here are more family-run craft distilleries:
Badlands Distillery: Mark and Sandy Eschenbacher, Jim Herber, daughter Shaley Herber, daughter-in-law Cheyenne Herber.
Old Nick Williams Co.: brothers, Van and John Williams, sons, Zeb and Matt Williams (familydistilling for over 250 years)
Owens Valley Distilling Company: Dave & Brittany Holman; good friend Adam Floyd
Taconic Distillery: Paul & Carol Ann Coughlin and their three daughters - Kathryn, Christina & Grace
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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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ADI's Certification Program now has
2,796 spirits listed!
Apply today
and join the 578 micro-distilleries who are truly
craft.
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Law makes it easier to enjoy Iowa's craft distilleries
By Randall Weissman, Chicago Tribune
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A new law allowing alcohol sales by the glass at Iowa distilleries makes this a better time than ever to check out the Hawkeye State's craft distillers.
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Combine Americans' growing fondness for brown liquors with the nation's biggest corn crop, shake it with a new law that allows alcohol sales by the glass and you have a winning recipe for Iowa distillers.
Illinois' neighbor has been a source for fans of John Barleycorn dating to Prohibition, when Templeton Rye became known as one of Al Capone's favorite libations. Today, craft distillers are sprouting up across the state. And as of this past summer, a new law permits distillers to sell their product in cocktails at the distillery, as opposed to just being allowed to offer small samples and bottle sales.
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Still Austin Whiskey Co. begins distilling whiskey
by Nino Marchetti, The Whiskey Wash
The Texas craft whiskey scene right now is certainly one of the most exciting in the country. Top craft distilleries in this market focused on whiskey include the likes of Balcones and Garrison Brothers, but it doesn't mean there's not room for other players to emerge. One of those, Still Austin Whiskey Co., out Austin, Texas, could give the others a run for their money in the long term.
Still Austin Whiskey Co., according to those behind it, is a so-called "grain-to-glass" distillery, which is a loosely defined industry term meaning they do most, if not all, of their production on site using local ingredients where possible. For these guys this is said to mean pretty much everything except growing the grains themselves: milling, mashing, fermenting, distilling, barreling and bottling of their spirits happen all in house.
...Another thing which grabs us about them is the consultants they've brought in to help them make top flight craft whiskey. These include Nancy Fraley*, a well regarded distilled spirits professional and blender who's behind, among other things, the successful Jos A. Magnus & Co. distillery out of Washington D.C.
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"Technology Aged Whisky" outscores 95% of the world's best whiskies, making history
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Jim Murray's famous
2018 Whisky Bible
has awarded 94 points and its coveted Liquid Gold designation to
Lost Spirits
Abomination, a peated malt "aged" in just 6 days utilizing Lost Spirits' revolutionary patented technology.
The Whisky Bible contains over 4,600 ratings of the world's top whiskies, and Liquid Gold is only awarded to those scoring at least 94 points -- representing the top 5% of all whiskies cataloged in the "bible." Lost Spirits has made history by becoming the first spirits-maker to reach the pinnacle of whisky making by "hacking" the chemistry of barrel aging. Read more.
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North Carolina has rich distillery history
by Bob Buckley, Fox8 News
LEWISVILLE, N.C. -- Let the good times pour. "We're in a renaissance of spirits, right now," said Matt Williams, one of the owners of the Old Nick Distillery in Lewisville.
But, really, it's just a recreation of what once was.
"At one point, North Carolina had more distilleries than just about anybody else," said John Trump, the author of "Still and Barrell: Craft Spirits in the Old North State," a book that both tells the history and current state of distilling of whiskey and the like in North Carolina.
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Behind the scenes: keeping a craft distillery going
Production hasn't had a moment to let up, as a busy summer has morphed right into a busy fall, and we can't imagine anything better than all the humming, steaming, puddling, and smells wafting around from busy fermenters and stills. Ok, maybe not all the smells, but, you know... Not only are we adding an automatic cork presser-inner to our bottling line, Joel and Ted have been fabricating a bunch of other new bits as well. They're building stands and conveyors and lazy susan-like collection table, ingeniously using fun parts like skateboard bearings and rotisserie motors and salvaged steel to turn the used machines we bought into a full...
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The Label Makers create new look for 3 Pugs Gin
Premium spirits label manufacturers, The Label Makers, have recently created a new look label for a home-grown artisan small batch gin distillery, 3 Pugs Gin.
The brainchild of a husband and wife duo, Warrington-based 3 Pugs Gin started life as a hobby that has since grown into a successful craft distilling business. The name for the business comes from the couple's other passion in life - pugs.
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Brewers Association launches $213 Billion crowdfunding campaign to buy Anheuser-Busch
by The Brewers Association
Boulder, Colo., October 16, 2017-
It's official: The Brewers Association (BA), the not-for-profit organization that represents America's small and independent brewers, has announced the craft brewing community's intent to Take Craft Back from Big Beer. The #TakeCraftBack campaign seeks to crowdsource the funds to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev, the international conglomerate that has been busy acquiring small breweries across the country.
For full details on the campaign and how to contribute, visit TakeCraftBack.com. Pledges will only be collected after all $213 billion has been secured. Until then, free swag will be distributed to all contributors and perhaps a few toasts will be raised along the way.
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Bill's Corner
... Miscellany from ADI Founder Bill Owens
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In the SPIRIT of the season...
How does your distillery show their Halloween spirit? Share your photos, such as the one above, (ADI Director of Operations, Christy Howery shrieking in fear of the ADI World Headquarters' witch) or the one below of
Garrison Brothers distillery in Texas
(image courtesy of Donald Snyder).
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