Craft Spirits Weekly
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Craft Spirits Weekly,  a service dedicated to bringing you the news most important to the craft spirits distiller. Check your inbox every Thursday to find a curated selection of articles and news pieces from the American Craft Spirits Association.
Entrepreneurial Women Are Shaking Up Craft Spirits
Women are redefining the American spirits industry by founding artisanal
distilleries that are anything but stodgy old boys' clubs. (Fast Company)
New PA Law Lets Brewpubs Serve Local Craft Spirits
Creative spirits in Pennsylvania brewpubs and distilleries are reveling in a new law that allows them to serve each other's products. (Philly.com)
Florida Distillers Lobby State to Expand Sales
Florida craft-liquor makers are fighting for equal footing with burgeoning beer and wine producers. A bill submitted last month in the Florida legislature could help with that, allowing distillers to expand sales of their own products, sell their products off site and raise the limit on how much alcohol they are allowed to produce. (Orlando Sentinel)
New York Distillers Get State Back to its Whiskey Roots
"How to make a Manhattan." That phrase has seen a spike in online searches around the holidays every year since 2007, according to Google. And just as those amateur mixologists are rediscovering the classic cocktail—2-parts rye, 1-part sweet vermouth, a dash of bitters, chilled, then garnished with a maraschino cherry—New Yorkers are getting back to their whiskey roots. (Crain’s New York Business)
2016 Was Good Year for Distilling in L.A.
Drinking local in L.A. is no longer a fleeting dream. Over the last few years, Los Angeles has been increasing its number of everything from homegrown breweries to coffee roasters, making imbibing locally produced liquids easier than ever. (LA Weekly)
Rye Whiskey Production Returns to Nation’s Capital
Washington is churning out enough spirits to fill liquor cabinets from Northwest to Southeast, from navy-strength gin to vodka made on U street and even Italian amari. You can now add rye whiskey to that list, courtesy of the team at One Eight Distilling, which recently launched its Rock Creek rye whiskey after nearly two years of labor. Rock Creek rye is the first rye whiskey made in D.C. since Prohibition. (DCist.com)
MN Celebrates Rise of Craft Distilling in State
With jazz music playing in the background, a table of  friends sip artisan cocktails made with spirits produced onsite. "This is our Loonshine Whiskey," says Simeon Rossi, co-founder of Northfield, Minn.’s Loon Liquors. The business began producing its spirits in 2014 - all organic, and all local. (KAR-11, Minneapolis)
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