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2017 ADI Conference
& Vendor Expo
Two Weeks Out:
The Hyatt Inner Harbor is full. Rooms at the Days Inn are going fast, book now!
Hotel info.
Click
HERE(or floor plan above)
for a list of 2017 vendors
ATTENTION attendees!
If you get a call from a company offering lower hotel rates at your hotel, THIS IS A SCAM. You will be asked to release your room and pay this "Room Block Pirate" upfront, only to find yourself without a room upon arrival. If you get such a call, please
email us with the name and phone number so we can follow up with authorities. Thank you.
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Stay at Dogfish Inn - ADI Member Discount
Stay a night at Dogfish Head's off-centered Coastal Inn on your way to the conference or on the way home!
ADI Members will receive
a 15% discount.
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Gin Summit
April 1
Washington, D.C.
Join ADI at the Gin Summit prior to the Annual Conference and Expo
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Register.
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Important Security Update that will impact certain users of COLAs Online, Formulas Online, Permits Online
Starting on April 11, 2017, TTB Online applications will no longer support certain older Web browsers and computer operating systems,
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Distillation Basics Workshop
Where:
Missouri State Winery and Distillery, MSU - Mountain Grove, MO
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Workshop: Starting Your Own Distillery - Part One
Where:
Rob Rubens Distilling & Brewing, 909 E. El Segundo Blvd., El Segundo, CA
Date:
May 20-21, 2017.
More info.
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Celebrating TWO years of
whiskey-making in Chattanooga
Chattanooga Whiskey Experimental Distillery (formerly Tennessee Stillhouse)
March 24th - 8pm-10pm.
More info.
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Lockhouse Distillery releases first Amaro produced in western New York
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Corvallis author to talk on Oregon's liquor history
WHAT: Author Scott Stursa, reading from "Distilled in Oregon: A History & Guide with Cocktail Recipes"
WHEN: 7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 22, at Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, Oregon.
Event info.
Book Info.
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2017 New York International Spirits Competition
Open to all commercially produced spirits from around the world. You do not have to be imported or sold in New York to submit! Remember to enter the coupon code
ADI17 upon checking out to receive a
$50 discount/entry.
Info.
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Long Road Aquavit takes home Double Gold at 2017 Denver International Spirits Competition
In addition to the Double Gold medal for Long Road Aquavit, the distillery also won Silver medals for Long Road Cherry Brandy and Long Road Old Aquavit, and a Bronze medal for Long Road Gin.
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Virginia Distillery Company wins 'Best American Single Malt Whisky' at the World Whiskies Awards
Virginia Distillery Company's flagship Virginia Highland Malt Whisky won 'Best American Single Malt Whisky' at the World Whiskies Awards presented by Whisky Magazine where the American results were announced in New York on February 28th.
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Established distillery for sale
Established distillery for sale. Located in northeast Georgia. First class facility with equipment and inventory. Serious inquires only. 704-315-8011 See more photos.
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Albany Distilling Co. set
for summer expansion
by Brian Nearing,
Times Union
Albany Distilling Co. announced it will renovate a former warehouse at 75 Livingston Ave., into a new bar, tasting room and storage facility expected to open this summer. The company makes whiskey, rum, and vodka.
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Cardinal Spirits now available in Illinois and Tennessee
Cardinal Spirits, the craft distillery in Bloomington, Ind., has expanded its distribution to two new markets: Illinois and Tennessee. In Illinois, Cardinal Spirits has initially launched at select
Binny's stores throughout Chicago.
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ADI's Certification Program now has
2,207 spirits listed!
Apply today
and join the 443 micro-distilleries who are truly
craft.
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Baltimore to host national distilling conference
by Joshua Gordon,
Baltimore Business Journal
In the past three months Lost Ark Distilling Co. and Old Line Spirits have opened for business in Greater Baltimore. By the end of April, Sagamore Spirit will begin welcoming visitors to its distillery in Port Covington.
The Maryland distilling scene has continued to grow over the past 10 years and the past three years in particular have seen rapid growth, said Kevin Atticks, executive director of the Maryland Distillers Guild.
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ADI exclusive interview for our attendees, Wednesday April 5, lunch keynote
Indiegogo (the world's largest global crowdfunding platform) Co-Founder Mr. Slava Rubin talks with Pia Carusone about how she raised a record $119,643 to help fund the startup of Republic Restoratives Distillery and Craft Cocktail Bar.
Register now for ADI Conference.
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Arizona set to liberalize craft liquor laws
by Christian Britschgi,
Arizona Watchdog.org
Few things help beat back the Arizona heat like a stiff drink from one of the state's budding craft distilleries.
Still, many Arizonans are forced to suffer the summer sun without their drink of choice due to the way the craft liquor industry is regulated in the state. Indeed, while craft liquor is experiencing something of a golden age across the country, Arizonian distillers are forced to contend with a raft of restrictions unique to their industry, inhibiting their ability to reach a growing base of thirsty...
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Alberta government to roll out grant
program for craft distillers
by Amanda Stephenson,
Calgary Herald
A new government grant program aimed at giving Alberta's small distillers a boost is being cheered by the province's fledgling craft spirits industry, even though it will be modelled on an existing craft beer program that has sparked lawsuits from out-of-province brewers.
The Notley government announced in Thursday's budget a plan to grow the province's craft distillery business. While details were not provided, Finance Minister Joe Ceci said it will be modelled on the Alberta Small Brewers Development Program introduced last July.
"The Alberta small brewery grant program is creating jobs and driving new investment," Ceci said in his budget address. "This year, we are going to build on the success of our craft brewing program and work to model a similar program for Alberta's craft distillers."
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Crafty bottled-in-bond whiskeys
by Richard Thomas,
The Whiskey Reviewer
Although most headlines about the American micro-distilling movement tend to focus on its explosive growth, a boom that now has well over 1,000 small distilleries in operation with more on the way, as a serious observer of the whiskey part of that movement I prefer to monitor a different aspect: the gaining maturity of craft whiskey.
Seven years ago, critics could complain about the poor, immature quality of most craft whiskeys, and scoff at blanket use of tiny barrels. Nowadays it is the norm for "small barrel" to mean a 25-or 30-gallon cask, rather than a 5-gallon job, and many producers have some 53-gallon American Standard Barrels (ASBs) socked away in the warehouse as well. Moreover, some micro-distilleries have now been in operation for long enough to make proper use of these larger barrels, releasing more mature whiskeys.
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Kings County Distillery releases Bottled-in-Bond Craft Bourbon
by Nino Marchetti,
The Whiskey Wash
The world of bottled-in-bond bourbons is one you think is either worth the specifics this whiskey goes through to get this designation, or one in which you think it is just extra hype with little value on the overall product. Whatever the case, this type of bourbon used to be more the focus of traditional Kentucky distilleries, but of late an increasing number of older craft distilleries have entered the game with their own bonded offerings. Now Kings County Distillery out of Brooklyn is getting into the game for the first time outside of its facility with an allocated release of Kings County Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon.
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UPDATE: NOTE FROM EDITOR
Distilleries that malt;
It's a small club
Addition to story by
Hamilton Distillers
Frey Ranch Estate Distillery in Fallon Nevada should have been included on the list of "Distilleries that Malt" from the Hamilton Distillers' story.
Frey Ranch Estate Distillery m
alts and grows all the grains they use, including corn, wheat, barley, and oats. They also smoke their own barley used for their single malt.
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VA Distillers Association launches Associate Membership program: service providers, vendors
The Virginia Distillers Association is pleased to announce that we are launching our Associate Membership Program for service providers and vendors!
Be a part of the growing craft spirits industry in Virginia as an Associate Member sponsor of the Virginia Distillers Association. Our industry is eager to build partnerships with service providers or vendors for improving their businesses; and the VDA Associate Member sponsorship is great way to get your business in front of Virginia distillers! *FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: To promote the newly launched Associate Membership program, the VDA is offering 20% off of on all new VDA Associate Memberships through March 31, 2017.*
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How alcohol and caffeine built civilization
by Chelsea Follett, managing editor of HumanProgress.org, a
project
of the CATO Institute. Excerpt from
USA Today
column
No two drugs have defined human civilization the way alcohol and caffeine have. Nature created both to kill creatures much smaller than us - plants evolved caffeine to poison insect predators, and yeasts produce ethanol to destroy competing microbes...
Alcohol consumption could have given early homo sapiens a survival edge. Before we could properly purify water or prepare food, the risk of ingesting hazardous microbes was so great that the antiseptic qualities of alcohol made it safer to consume than non-alcoholic alternatives - despite alcohol's own risks.
Even our primate ancestors may have consumed ethanol in decomposing fruit. Robert Dudley, who created the "drunken monkey" hypothesis, believes that modern alcohol abuse "arises from a mismatch between prehistoric and contemporary environments."
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Distilling locally: A German HR consultant and a linguistic professor make McGregor [South Africa] their new "local"
McGregor, in the Western Cape is a little hidden treasure, set amongst the vineyards and fruit farms of the Robertson Valley. Within that hidden treasure, lies a very special distillery called Tanagra Private Cellar.
Bordered by Vrolijkheid Nature Reserve, bursting with fynbos on one side, a stream on another and mountains all around, this is home to Annette and Robert Rosenbach, a German couple who moved to their "farm in Africa" eight years ago.
It's an unlikely place to find an HR consulting executive and professor of linguistics. But after traveling throughout southern Africa, they discovered McGregor, fell in love with it and made a conscious decision to quit successful jobs in Germany and move.
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