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New Hands-on Distilling Workshops added
Hands-on Whiskey Distilling Workshop and Basic Distillery Operation for the Start-up Distiller
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 Workshop
December 8-9, 2017
Location: Ironroot Republic Distillery, Dennison, TX
Instructor: Nancy Fraley
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Call for Presentations for ADI 2018 Conference
Submission deadline:
September 15, 2017
Share your expertise at the largest Distilling Conference & Expo:
March 26-28, 2018 at the Oregon Convention Center
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Tickets on sale NOW for
London Craft Distilling
Expo & Conference
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South Jersey Distillery wins Best in Class at International Spirits Awards
Lazy Eye Vodka won the Competition's Top Honor for "Best In Class" at the Seattle International Spirit Awards. The distillery's two other submissions in Seattle, Lazy Eye Oak Aged Vodka and Lazy Eye Raki with Anise were also awarded gold medals. Read more
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New Releases
Events & Milestones
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Whiskey Systems Calculator App now available on the iTunes App Store for free
The makers of Whiskey Systems Online, the best-in-class complete craft distillery management software, have published a standalone app with all the Whiskey Systems Calculators to the iTunes/iPhone App Store - for free! Use this app to make quick distillery calculations even if internet access is unavailable.
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Chattanooga Whiskey's Experimental Series Batch 001 release sold out in
48 hours!
Batch 001: the first
aged spirit in
Chattanooga since 1915! It's made in Tennessee and it uses a high amount of malted grain.
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(Distiller's Notes from Grant McCracken)
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Virginia Distillery Company's Virginia-Highland Whisky enters new markets
Virginia Distillery Company
's flagship Port Cask Finished Virginia-Highland Whisky is made from 100% malted barley and showcases both Old and New World whisky-making. Whisky from Scotland is married with whisky produced at the distillery in Central Virginia.
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Boardroom Spirits & Robert Irvine Foods partner to introduce healthier, quality spirits at Public House,
Las Vegas
Boardroom Spirits is thrilled to announce a recent and exciting venture with Chef Robert Irvine and Robert Irvine Foods. The distillery will provide its award-winning vodka, gin, and the FRESH line into delicious, fresh and fit cocktails including the Cranberry Caipiroska and Beet Down both of which taste great and pack a punch without being sugar-laced calorie bombs.
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Bent Brewstillery announces its first whiskey with party
Saturday, August 19, 2017
The anniversary/whiskey release party will feature off sale bottles as well as a unique cocktail menu that accents Double IPA-Skey's unique character.
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Ironclad Distillery of Virginia launches a different kind of crowdfunding campaign
New law allows anyone to become an investor and own a share in award-winning craft bourbon distillery.
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Come meet the Four Horsemen at our First Annual Permit Party!
It's been a year since our Federal Permit came through, and we think it's a cause to celebrate! First Annual Permit Party on the Patio. Join us on Sunday, August 27th, 11:00 - 4:00 for brunch, booze and blues.
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Drink of Week: Peach Julep
After closing down for the month of July for a little remodeling to create extra seating in the tasting room, Crouch Distilling has reopened and is serving up some refreshing cocktails to beat the Carolina heat.
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Tel Aviv distillery to sell off Israel's first single malt whiskey
Milk & Honey Distillery is unloading its first "experimental series" of the spirit, aged only three years, by offering 100 bottles in an online auction and another 291 bottles are being sold locally. Read more.
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San Diego Spirits Festival - August 26-27, 2017
The goal of the San Diego Spirits Festival is to advance the industry and all that it encompasses via market launches, industry advancement and exposure...
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Three-day advanced distilling workshop in Utah
New World Distillery, in Eden, UT, will be hosting a second hands-on, interactive course with Craft Distillers Chris and Ashley Cross, and Odin of iStill.
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ADI's Certification Program now has
2,791 spirits listed!
Apply today
and join the 576 micro-distilleries who are truly
craft.
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Miscellany from
ADI President Bill Owens
Guess the distillery in OR
Correctly name the distillery in Oregon (shown above) that Bill visited, and we'll send you an ADI lapel pin.
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Behind the Bar brings first of its kind distillers showcase to Charlotte
by Vanessa Infanzon,
Charlotte Five.com
The Queen City Craft Distillers Showcase is Behind the Bar's inaugural three-day event and begins Friday, Aug. 18. It's a chance for Charlotteans to mix and mingle with representatives from local and national distilleries, learn about various craft spirit brands and try new cocktails while supporting nonprofit organizations.
DiSean Burns and Frank Walton founded Behind the Bar, a nonprofit organization, with two goals in mind: Introduce or reacquaint consumers to craft spirits and raise money for Charlotte's restaurant service industry.
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Adapting Wisconsin's liquor laws to account
for evolving industry
by Kris Schuller,
We Are Green Bay.com
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"Most industries don't live under a cap that says you can't make this many cars or make this many sandwiches," said Brent Weycker, owner of Titletown Brewery.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) - Big changes are being proposed to the state's liquor laws in a bill which would impact breweries, wineries and distilleries. Local 5's Kris Schuller reports the legislation's author says it all boils down to fairness.
At Titletown Brewery - employees are busy bottling up a new batch of beer. But under current law owner Brent Weycker can only make so much product in a year, 10,000 barrels, regardless of demand.
"Most industries don't live under a cap that says you can't make this many cars or make this many sandwiches," said Weycker.
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Japan distilleries starting to brew craft gins
by Tor Ching Li,
Straits Times
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| When The Good Meals Shop opened in Shibuya [Tokyo] in 2014, it offered 30 types of gin. Now, it serves more than 230 types of craft gin. |
First it was whisky. Now Japanese distilleries are awakening to the allure of craft gin. They are coming up with new recipes and introducing new flavours such as yuzu, sakura flowers, green tea and sansho, a peppery spice harvested from Japanese prickly ash.
Technically, gin is any neutral spirit that is predominantly flavoured with juniper berry, a blue-ish green berry-like fruit. [Distillers] are free to add other botanicals to make a unique-tasting drink.
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Don't know a 'Barrel' from a 'Butt' from
a 'Hogshead'? Allow this Maine cooper
to explain
by Jennifer Mitchell, Maine Public [PBS, NPR]
These days, a "Cooper" might refer to a brand of cheese or a compact car. But a hundred years ago, a cooper was commonly known as person who built wooden casks to store wine, whiskey or other consumables - and the craft is still alive.
If you like a nip of fine, cask-aged whiskey, part of what you're enjoying is the flavor of the barrel it came in. "I use exclusively white oak. It's watertight, but it also tastes good," says Ed Lutjens, who handmakes barrels for a number of craft distilleries.
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WSU barley breeding, craft malting,
brewing and distilling field walk
Submitted to ThurstonTALK by Washington State University
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Attendees of the WSU Thurston County Extension barley field day mingle among the field-scale, half-acre plots. Photo courtesy: Washington State University
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Sink your teeth into a colorful assortment of tomato varieties, and the difference in flavor from one to another is obvious and delightful. But what about spirits made from different varieties of grain? Could different barley varieties provide the basis, for instance, of distinctively flavored whiskeys?
About forty attendees gathered at Hidden River Farms outside of Montesano, WA in July to learn about just that. That is the site of a research project, supported by funds from the...
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At Baltimore bars, tiki cocktails get a
craft makeover
by Wesley Case for
The Baltimore Sun
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| Tom Fabrizio, a bartender at Gunther & Co., shows how to make the 'Death of a Bachelor' cocktail. (Lloyd Fox / Baltimore Sun) |
Until recently, tiki-cocktail culture - which began on the West Coast in the 1930s as nuanced and complex rum-based drinks - seemed redefined by sugary, plastic-bottle mixes of pre-blended Mai Tais and blue-hued hurricanes.
"When I first started bartending, someone asked, 'What's in a Mai Tai? What's in a Rum Runner?' " recalled Nick Ramey, beverage director for local restaurant group Southern Boys Concepts. "Another bartender was like, "I don't know, just make it fruity and sweet, and nobody will know the difference.' That's sort of the reputation tiki had for a long time." These days, Baltimore bartenders are reclaiming tiki's original intentions...
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County hopes how-to guide will nurture craft beverage industry
by Ryan Marshall,
The Frederick News-Post
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| Kyle Pfalzer, co-owner of Tenth Ward Distilling Company, leads a tour. |
Partly through conscious policymaking and partly through inertia, Frederick County has become central to Maryland's craft beverage industry. Now, the county seeks to expand that industry with a guide designed to help the owners of new breweries, distilleries and wineries navigate some of the complexities such businesses often encounter.
The county wanted to create an easy how-to guide with suggestions, steps and resources for owners of both large and small craft beverage operations, said Katie Albaugh, an agriculture business development specialist with the Frederick County Office of Economic Development. "This is really for everyone. It doesn't matter what size you are," Albaugh said.
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Ampersand Distilling Co.: a family venture bringing things together in BC
by SCOUT Vancouver
Why ampersand? Some say the '&' symbol signifies a closer collaboration than the word 'and' - very fitting for our family venture. We are all about bringing things together. Science & art. Technology & tradition. Ingredients & techniques. Family & friends.
Ampersand Distilling Company launched in October 2014. We are a family run craft distillery located in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. Our 1000L mash tun, 1000L pot still, and revolutionary 500L column still were designed and built by father-son duo Stephen & Jeremy Schacht.
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San Diego into the spirit with craft distillery tours
by Karla Peterson, San Diego Union Tribune
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At the You & Yours Distilling Co., bar and distillery manager Trevor Bowles (right) talks to tour participants.
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Fresh juice is fabulous and tonic is terrific, but at the new You & Yours Distilling Company in San Diego's East Village, the best cocktail mixer might be a jigger of knowledge.
[Last] week, You & Yours became the latest local spirits maker to offer tours of its distillery. For $25, you can step into the back room for a close-up look at the custom-built hybrid still, a full tutorial on how the five-month old distiller whips up its vodka and gin and a generous tasting of the results.
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