Deadline
Friday
January 19, 2018
ADI Judging of Craft Spirits
Enter your spirits in the
12th Annual ADI Judging of Craft Spirits
, the largest and most-respected judging of craft spirits.
(spirits must arrive by January 25, 2018)
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The Electric Sombrero of Death
~ Scott Moore, Architect, Contractor, Distillery Code Expert, and President of Dalkita Architecture and Construction
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The Political, Economic and Social Factors Impacting the Distilled Spirits Sector
~Kraig Naasz, Distilled Spirits Council,
Frank Coleman, Distilled Spirits Council
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Ready to go organic?
~ Jerry Horner, President,
Horner International Company
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Amaros and Botanical Liqueurs - History & Production Techniques
~ Andrea Loreto, Founder & President, Elixir
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Lessons Learned in Building and Operating a Cont. Column Still
~ Abe Stevens, Founder & Distiller, Humboldt Distillery
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1-day Distilling Workshops:
Gin
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David T. Smith & Lauren Patz
Malt Whiskey ~ Andrew Tice
Come see these Break-out Sessions and much more
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Winter 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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New Releases,
Events & Milestones
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Spirit Works announces distribution agreement with Henry Wine Group
California grain-to-glass craft spirits pioneer Spirit Works Distillery announced that it has tapped fine wine and spirits distributor, The Henry Wine Group (part of the national distribution group, The Winebow Group) as its distribution partner in California, as of January 1, 2018.
More.
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Dogfish Head Distilling
launches new packaging
Goal: New packaging to work harder in telling brand story and communicating
each product's story and flavor profile.
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Gray Wolf Craft Distilling featured this month at DC restaurant
Each Tuesday this month, Brookland's Finest (Washington DC) will host a distiller dinner. This month, the restaurant is teaming up with Gray Wolf Craft Distilling out of St. Michaels, Maryland to offer three courses paired with the distillery's gin and vodka cocktails.
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Freeland Gin now available in Oregon liquor stores and bars
Four liquor stores are now carrying Freeland Gin as well as the first two bars in Oregon.
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Hundreds anticipated to bear frigid cold to support women entrepreneurs
2018 is Her year! Her Spirit Vodka, the vodka that gives half back to her, is launching its brand on January 27, 2018 at Liquor Barrel in Mahtomedi, MN.
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Announcing Cage and Sons Distilling Systems
Alberta, CANADA: Announcing the formation of a new equipment company dedicated to producing the highest quality equipment for the distilling industry. Cage & Sons offers exceptional equipment at affordable prices and helps anyone willing to work hard to build a brand be able to enter the market.
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CRAFT BEVERAGE MODERNIZATION AND TAX REFORM
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 makes extensive changes to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including to the excise tax rates for alcohol. TTB recently created a new Web page containing our initial guidance on the changes.
Read more.
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Alcoholic Beverage Labeling Act civil penalty adjusted for inflation
The Alcoholic Beverage Labeling Act
of 1988 (ABLA) requires a government health warning statement to appear on all containers of alcoholic beverages sold or distributed in the United States. ABLA provides that any person who violates the provisions of the ABLA is subject to a civil penalty...
Read more.
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New DSP permits issued
New Distilled Spirits Plants permits issued as of 14 January 2018.
Read more.
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Grundy Tanks for Lease or Sale. The Grundy tank is a work-horse for many craft distilleries. It comes is several sizes and is ideal for fermentation and storage.
More
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ADI map of distilleries
on Distilling.com
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2018 ADI vendor advertising/exhibit 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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TOAST: The Oregon Artisan Spirit Tasting
Out-of-State craft distillers welcome to pour at event
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| Members of the Oregon craft spirits community at the inaugural TOAST event which coincided with the ADI Conference in Portland, Oregon in 2011. |
Hello fellow ADI Members!
The Oregon Distillers Guild invites you to join us and show off your spirits at the 8th Annual TOAST: The Original Artisan Spirits Tasting event coming on Saturday, March 24, 2018.
This year's event is at the Tiffany Center at 1410 SW Morrison St. in downtown Portland. 4-5 pm (VIP/Media) 5-9 pm (General Admission)
We are excited to coordinate this year's TOAST with the ADI Conference and Expo that extends through the following week here in Portland, OR [and the Gin Summit earlier in the day March 24.]
ADI Guest Cost: $250. As an ADI Guest, your event cost will include your booth, table and table-cloth, chairs, 2 booth support passes, 1 guest passes, plus all related advertising, and website media output.
You will need to provide your personal signage, and swag. Unfortunately, the OLCC does not allow non-Oregon spirits producers to sell alcohol products directly to consumers
If you are interested in participating in TOAST fill out the application at this link: http://oregondistillerytrail.com/vendors
Questions? Please contact Lee Perry at ([email protected]), Rick Rickard ([email protected]), or Jamie Howard at ([email protected]).
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Prohibition on Flammable Liquids in Plastic Totes
by Matthew Taylor-Rennert, Dalkita Architecture & Construction
What Are IBC Plastic Totes and what is prohibited from being stored in them?
If you've been to a few distilleries, you might have seen these around: Large plastic IBC (intermediate bulk container) totes.
IBC totes are lightweight, come in a variety of sizes (often seen in 275 gallons or more), and are affordable. They are great for storing water and some other nonhazardous liquids, but they are actually prohibited by code to be used to store certain flammable liquids inside buildings, including alcohol over about 16% ABV
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Vancouver Island hotspots for getting into the spirits
by Nancy Besharah, San Francisco Chronicle
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Bottles and barrels at de Vine Spirits, a craft distillery on Vancouver Island near Victoria.
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Emily Henderson carefully pours 2 ounces of de Vine Moderna vermouth, the flavor of which has been influenced by no fewer than 31 botanicals, from sarsaparilla to mint to local spruce tips. "And it's medicinal," she says.
They're sipping something memorable in Victoria, British Columbia, and it's not just afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel anymore. Distillers are using wild-harvested botanicals, B.C. fruits, and ancient grains to produce certified craft spirits including gin, vodka, and single malt whiskey with a flavor profile unique to the Pacific Northwest. De Vine's vermouth is one of many products putting Vancouver Island on the map as a center of premium artisanal spirits, and Henderson likens the innovative local distillers to artists experimenting with colors. Some could be masterpieces. Read more
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Could you be a Ricker Rider?
Story by Sam Slaughter, Photos by Amy Ellis, Bitter Southerner
Maybe you've been in a Kentucky warehouse where bourbon ages in huge barrels racked many stories high. But did you think about the person whose job it is to get each of those quarter-ton barrels perfectly in place? That person is called a ricker rider. Today, we take you to Four Roses Distillery to meet one of the best: Keith Downs.
Nine a.m., and it's hot already, the stickiness and humidity of a Kentucky July already creeping into the Four Roses bourbon aging and bottling facility in Cox's Creek, Kentucky. While the actual making of the distiller's bourbon happens 50 miles away in Lawrenceburg, the real magic - the years the whiskey spends aging, interacting with the charred-oak barrels that are essential to bourbon becoming bourbon - happens here. Read more.
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Campari eases liquor ordering with NFC-enabled fridge magnets
by Robert Williams,
Mobile Marketer
Campari America, the U.S. distributor of Skyy vodka and Wild Turkey bourbon, is distributing special refrigerator magnets that consumers can tap with a smartphone to order spirits for home delivery. The "Campari on Tap" magnets are equipped with a special near-field communication chip (NFC) that opens a product page on Drizly, the online shop for alcohol. From there, a smartphone user can order Campari brands for delivery.
The "smart" magnets are being distributed in liquor stores in New York City. Each magnet is branded with one of six Campari products: Campari, Skyy Vodka, Wild Turkey, Aperol, Appleton Estate Jamaican Rum or Espolòn Tequila.
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Your countertop liquor distillery is here
The PicoStill Is Revealed at CES
by Hadley Tomicki, UrbanDaddy
Very few of us probably have room for a copper pot still in our kitchens.
But an intriguing new path to distilling your own booze in a relatively small package may have emerged at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.
The PicoStill can indeed fit on your kitchen counter and, with the right knowledge, a person could distill many different kinds of booze with it. The device was apparently developed as a method for making hop oils for beer, and is intended to work as an attachment the company's at-home beer brewing devices.
Read more.
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Grand Canyon Distillery opens with high spirits
by Wendy Howell, Williams News
Lovers of craft spirits have a reason to raise a toast - the owner of Grand Canyon Brewing Company has expanded his operation and opened a distillery to make artisanal liquors.
John Peasley's craft brewery and restaurant at 301 N. 7th St. recently completed licensing requirements to begin producing distilled alcohol, with their first batches of vodka and rum already hitting the shelves around northern Arizona.
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San Luis Obispo County building inspector builds his own distillery
by Karen Garcia, New Times SLO
Driving down the main road in Los Osos you wouldn't be able to find Foggy Bottom Distillery at first or even know it was there to begin with.
"You really have to want to come here to find this place," said Todd Adams, owner and operator of the distillery.
Foggy Bottom Distillery is tucked away to the side of the building that's home to Hong Kong Chinese and Martin's Mexican restaurants-but if you look close enough, you'll find the sign to its entrance off Los Osos Valley Road.
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