Florida Mermaid Rum brings home Gold, Best of Class
Mermaid Rum also won
Double Gold at the 2017 SF World Spirits Competition.
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Grand Traverse receives 8 medals at spirits competition
Grand Traverse Distillery was awarded eight individual medals at the American Distilling Institute's 11th Annual Spirits Competition, held as part of its annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland earlier this month.
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Bloomery
Plantation Distillery introduces America's first
all-natural green liqueur!
Bloomery Plantation Distillery is releasing the first flavor in its new line of premium liqueurs that are designed specifically for mixologists. This new, botanical flavor is called Cré (Irish Gaelic for "earth.").
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4yo Bottled in Bond Malt Rye release from Quincy Street
Join Binny's Beverage Depot and
Quincy Street Distillery
Owner and Distiller Derrick Mancini for the launch of N.A.S.R. Bottled-in-Bond at a tasting event
April 28th, 6-8pm at Binny's Lincoln Park Tasting Room in Chicago.
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A new
International Spirits Competition
May 6-7, 2017 in Rochester, NY during
Rochester Cocktail Revival. Entry
Deadline: April 28, 2017
More info.
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Grand Re-Opening party at Santa Fe Spirits
Santa Fe Spirits' newly remodeled Distillery Tasting Room and new barrel storage facility are officially open for business and we inviting you to come celebrate with us! Join us
May 5, from
5:30 to 8:30.
More info.
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Distilling Training in Utah
Distilling with Advanced Techniques and Technologies
Sunday, May 7, 2017
New World Distillery, Eden, UT. Info.
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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.
Register/info.
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Gin Workshop at the
East London Distillery with David T Smith and Tom Hills
The Craft Distilling Expo are once again running their one-day workshop exploring designing and distilling your own gin.
Wed, June 7, 2017.
More info.
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SF Craft Spirits Carnival
Discounts for ADI members
June 17th & 18th
Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, SF
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Boston's Bully Boy opens new distillery and tasting room
Boston's first craft distillery expands
to increase production capacity fivefold.
"This expansion gives us the opportunity to focus on developing a number of new products that we've been tinkering with," said Dave Willis, co-founder of Bully Boy Distillers.
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Sagamore Spirit opens distillery in Port Covington
The highly anticipated waterfront distillery opened to the public on April 21, 2017. "We are proud to call the City of Baltimore our home," said Brian Treacy, President of Sagamore Spirit.
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New Distilled Spirits Plant (DSP) permits issued by the TTB as of 23 April 2017.
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ADI President/Founder
Bill Owens
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Spooky Spirits -
a video by
Finger Lakes Distilling
Send us your craft distilling NEWS/Video
Send your craft distilling news to our eNewsletter editor. While we cannot guarantee placement, we will do our best to get your news into an issue.
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Join Seth Jacobs as he travels coast-to-coast, visiting and reviewing craft distilleries. Read more.
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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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Travelocity and ADI name America's Top 20
Craft Spirits Tourism Destinations
ADI and Travelocity worked together to develop the first-ever Craft Spirits Tourism Index. The purpose of the index is to help draw consumer attention to the great spirits that craft distilleries are producing and support the growing interest in craft distillery tourism.
Recognizing local craft distilleries as a driver of tourism, Travelocity has created a page focused on spirits-related activities that can be booked directly from the Travelocity website - either as a stand alone local activity or part of a whole vacation.
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America's oldest rye whiskey back from extinction
by Wayne Curtis, for Punch magazine
In "Spirit Guide," Wayne Curtis demystifies the ever-shifting spirits landscape one bottle at a time. This round: the return of Pennsylvania and Maryland rye whiskey.
Old Monongahela is back. This is thrilling news for whiskey lovers, but it also raises a reasonable question: What the hell is Old Monongahela?
The short answer: Monongahela (MO-non-gah-HEEL-a) is a rye whiskey distilled in and around southwestern Pennsylvania and northwestern Maryland, typically within barging distance of the Monongahela River. (Geography refresher: the Monongahela flows northward from Virginia and, via tributaries, from Maryland into Pittsburgh, where it merges with the Allegheny to become the Ohio River.) The rye made in this region long had a reputation for being bigger, spicier and "chewier" than other, softer ryes historically made elsewhere, and was certainly more assertive than the corn whiskey associated with distilleries that cropped up as settlers moved west.
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PA craft distillers band together to create Philadelphia Area Distillery Trail
Philadelphia has long been known as a craft beer town, but the city that loves you back has found a place in its heart for craft distillers.
In 2011, Pennsylvania passed reforms that allowed distillers to offer tours, tastings, and onsite sales. These new laws opened the door for some of the country's best distillers to apply their craft in a city that is an epicurean destination due to its exceptional restaurants and watering holes.
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Half way there! US Distillers fight for Consumer Direct Sales campaign on IndieGoGo
by Doug Stone, founder and CEO of For-Lovers, LLC
If you are a small craft distillery, imagine a world where your spirits can be shipped directly to the consumer anywhere in the United States, with a larger margin going directly to your bottom line.
If you are consumer, imagine receiving a spectacular bottle of whiskey from a small independent distillery in another state, in a matter of days.
What a great place to be. Well, we are on our way to achieving this vision...but to get there, we need your help.
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US brandy is surging, even in whiskey country
by Clay Risen, The New York Times
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| Daniel Farber, owner of Osocalis Distillery in Sequel, Calif., with a glass of brandy. He is one of many distillers betting that brandy will be the next big brown liquor. |
Three years ago, Joe Heron, a pharmaceutical executive turned beverage-industry entrepreneur, moved here from Minneapolis to open a distillery. But unlike the dozens of other would-be whiskey barons setting up shop in Kentucky these days, Mr. Heron and his wife, Lesley, weren't interested in making bourbon. They wanted to make brandy.
Mr. Heron, 54, who hails from South Africa and wears a wide, gray soul patch like an aging roadie's, was no stranger to the drinks market: He had already made a small fortune developing a health drink and a hard cider. But even he is surprised at how well his new company, Copper & Kings American Brandy Company, has done, with orders pouring in from 28 states.
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Dangerous drinks and how to spot them
by M. Carrie Allan, imbibe magazine
People sometimes overdo it at cocktail festivals. So when Avery Glasser and his wife, Janet, started feeling under the weather during an event a few years ago, they figured maybe it was just too much booze, not enough water, or maybe food poisoning.
But gradually Glasser-who with Janet co-founded Bittermens, a company that makes an assortment of liqueurs and cocktail bitters-started to notice the particulars of his symptoms. Well-versed in the botanicals that go into his own products and their possible side effects, he realized that what he was experiencing-including ringing in the ears and muscle weakness-was quite distinct...
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Shot of bourbon? This law partner's got you covered
by Angela Morris,
Law.com
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First day of bottling aged bourbon at Ragged Branch Distillery, located in Albemarle County, Virginia, on a 92-acre farm.
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Lawyers are used to filing paperwork in a pinch. But Mayer Brown partner Russell Nance was motivated like never before when armed state police raided his bourbon business, alleging he and his partners were running an illegal moonshine operation and committing a felony. Police gave them until the end of the week to secure permit.
They completed the papers to make their new still legal in a couple of hours, recalled Nance, who said the group had just received the still and were beginning to assemble it when the police showed up.
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Craft Beverages - The New Black? Part I
by Courtney Blackman,
Candid magazine
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Wild rice from Kannuk Vodka - one of the ingredients used in their distilling process.
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Distilling equipment from Specific Mechanical Systems Ltd. |
When you talk to people in the craft beverage industry, you have to speak in volumes; not decibels, but barrels, gallons and litres, and whether you're just starting out, or a larger but still independent operation, craft alcohol is big business. It's trending so much right now, we decided to find out more, both from the realms of craft distilling and craft brewing. We flew to America - the largest market of craft consumers and the country that is seeing the biggest influx of new businesses in the market, to get to the bottom of it. In Part I, we focus on craft distilling (anyone producing under one hundred thousand nine-litre cases per year, as defined by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States).
We made our way to Baltimore, Maryland to attend the American Distilling Institute's (ADI) 2017 Spirits Conference & Vendor Expo. Involuntarily shunning the sunshine and taking the down escalator into the lower level of the Baltimore Convention Center, row after row after row of equipment manufacturers, bottle importers, bottlers, bottle decorators, grain salespeople and label specialists, were set up much like an exhibition at fashion week, less the menswear.
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