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New Releases,
Events & Milestones
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Distilling Research Grant Auction 2018 launched
The American Distilling Institute
is proud to announce a new initiative that will support craft distilling by funding scientific research.
The newly formed non-profit
Distilling Research Grant
(DRG) will be funded from an
online auction site
filled with donations from world-class vendors.
More information.
September 17 - November 19, 2018
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Craft Distilling Expo 2018
Next week in London
The 2018 Craft Distilling Expo will take place in London at The Boiler House Brick Lane on September 26 + 27
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ADI Hands-on Workshop:
Blending, Maturation, & Warehousing Workshop
Friday, December 7 - Sunday Dec. 9, 2018
Ironroot Republic Distilling - Denison, TX
Instructor: Nancy Fraley, Nosing Services
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Graton Distilling Company Releases Barrel Finished Gin in 5-Year-Old Zinfandel Casks
Graton Distilling Company (GDC) is proud to announce the release of Benham's Barrel Finished Gin in fifteen markets across the United States and select markets in Canada.
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Grain & Barrel Joins BBCo's Collaborative Distilling Program
The Bardstown Bourbon Company (BBCo) announced today that Grain & Barrel Spirits, the maker of pre-prohibition favorite Chicken Cock Whiskey, has joined BBCo's Collaborative Distilling Program.
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MicroShiner releases new mobile app for discovering
craft spirits
MicroShiner is excited to announce the launch of their new mobile app MicroFinder for both Android and iOS.
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Smugglers' Notch Distillery named in Top Ten Craft Vodka Distilleries by USA TODAY + Begins a Major Expansion
In addition to being named one of USA Today's Top Ten Craft Vodka Distilleries by the Readers' Choice Awards, Smugglers' Notch Distillery just purchased a 14,000 sq. ft. facility on a ten-acre campus along the Lamoille River in the heart of Jeffersonville, Vermont.
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Spirit Works Distillery voted among top 10 craft gin distilleries across the USA
California grain-to glass spirits pioneer Spirit Works Distillery was voted today among USA TODAY 10Best Reader's Choice - Best 10 Craft Gin Distilleries in the US. The women-lead distilling team at Spirit Works Distillery produces five distinctive styles including Gin, Barrel Gin, Sloe Gin, Navy Strength Gin, and Barrel Reserve Sloe Gin.
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USA Today - Wicked Dolphin - 3pete!
USA Today names Wicked Dolphin Best Craft Rum Distillery in the USA. 3rd Year in a Row - 2016, 2017 & 2018. "It's a great privilege for us to have been nominated and a great honor...
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Permits Online trade name amendment process improvement successfully launched
This week's top TTB news includes an update to Permits Online that speeds trade name amendments.
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Summer 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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Latest Edition of Nano Distilling book now on Amazon
The Nano Distillery: The Future of Distilling
Compiled by Bill Owens, Edited by Brad Plummer and Andrew Faulkner.
The Nano Distillery is a compilation of how-to chapters and real-life experiences of distillers who successfully produce quality spirits on a small scale.
Read more. Order book.
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White Mule Press publishes first guide to cocktail bar ownership
The Cocktail Bar: Notes For an Owner & Operator, by Chall Gray.
An Asheville bar owner-with experience in opening several other bars in the past-pulls back the veil. Spoiler alert: It ain't all wine and roses. But the good parts can be very good.
Read more.
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ADI map of distilleries
on Distilling.com
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ADI's Certification Program
now has
3,551 spirits listed!
Apply today
and join the 723 micro-distilleries who are truly
craft.
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Craft distilleries spared damage by Hurricane Florence
While we have sincere sympathy and concern for those citizens whose lives and loved ones have been impacted by Hurricane Florence, we are also grateful to report that the craft distilleries we contacted in North and South Carolina seem to have fared relatively well through the storm, so far.
Please contact us with any news/updates to share. Best wishes to all.
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#HurricaneFlorence
- Free Tours for Linemen
We will maintain our regular hours Mon-Sat, 10-6, as long as the power stays on and it is safe for our customers and employees. Feel free to call ahead to confirm 704-978-7175. Easy access at Exit 54 on Interstate-77. Clean restrooms and comfy sofas. Oh, and whiskey!
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Virginia is an alcohol-control state but friendlier
to its distillers...
By John Trump, Carolina Journal
RALEIGH, NC - For North Carolina's distillers, getting their products into ABC stores is arduous and time-consuming. Distillers must first check all the boxes pertinent to federal and state laws. The state must then approve their products before distillers send those products to Raleigh for distribution to ABC stores across the state.
Which stores is up to distillers, but also largely up to the ABC boards - North Carolina has 168 - and their members, whom distillers must persuade to carry their brands. Read more.
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The Devil's Cut: Virginia's spirits laws may be stifling a craft distilling revolution and leading some to consider moving out of state.
By Eric J. Wallace, VA Growler
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"Name another business that has to give away more than half of the money it makes? I sell a bottle of vodka in my tasting room for $29.89, but, after the ABC takes their cut, and I pay (packaging, materials costs, labor, and so on) we profit just $2!" - Christine Riggleman, CEO and master distiller at Silverback Distillery. |
It's a blistering Saturday evening in June, and the Silverback Distillery tasting room is packed. Visitors from across the state crowd two 10-seat soapstone bars and a room-centering island.
...Silverback is one of two distilleries situated along Nelson County's Highway 151, a 15-mile stretch of road known among craft connoisseurs as "Alcohol Alley." Gauging by the foot traffic, you'd think business was booming. But compared to neighboring cideries, wineries, and breweries, that's simply not the case.
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For Virginia's craft distillers, "a tasting room is essentially a break-even business," says Scott Harris, owner of Catoctin Creek Distilling Company. Harris says Virginia's hyper-regulatory spirits laws make it difficult to operate in the state. For instance, about 55 percent of the sale price from every bottle Catoctin sells goes to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority and state coffers. Read more.
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Whiskey fuels growth in Iowa
New laws mean an influx of whiskey and bourbon production in the Hawkeye State.
By Jeff Charis-Carlson, US News & World Report Contributor
SWISHER, Iowa - To Jeff Quint, it only makes sense for Iowa, as the nation's top corn-producing state, to become a national leader in the distilling of bourbon and other corn whiskey. And recent legislative changes at the state and national level are helping to make that vision a reality.
"What's happening today is our corn leaves the state at $4 a bushel, and that $4 bushel of corn comes back into the state as $80 of whiskey," says Quint, owner of Cedar Ridge Winery and Distillery. "I think it would be nice in Iowa if we could get that extra $76 on every bushel and become an exporter of bourbon, not an importer." Read more
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50-plus Grand Rapids venues not to miss during Michigan's ArtPrize
By John Gonzalez and Amy Sherman,
M-Live
Grand Rapids, Michigan Craft Distilleries to try:
Long Road Distillers, Gray Skies Distillery, Bier Distillery, 5295 West River Dr NE #100, Comstock Park, MI 49321.; The Knickerbocker-New Holland Brewing Co., Gin, gin and more gin. Vander Mill, more than just hard cider, ...
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By Margaret Ayala, Got Rum? Publishers
What inspired you to build a rum distillery and why on the island of Maui?
In my pre-distillery days, I was a senior corporate executive in the cable television industry. The last company I worked for was acquired in 1991 and I got a nice "golden parachute" check. I decided I would work on my own ventures going forward. Since then, I built several companies but always wanted to do something with my son. Hawaii had been our family's favorite place to vacation during my corporate career and.... I wanted to ultimately retire in Maui. Starting a family business with my son in Maui seemed to make a lot of sense. He and I started exploring various Hawaii based business opportunities including coffee, flowers, organic fruit crops, but in the process discovered that there were no distilleries in Hawaii.
Hawaii is one of the great sugar growing islands of the world so we decided on building a distillery and making rum our flagship product. Read more
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The Blackwater Distilling Redesign - Case Study
By Tribe brand design agency
Named after a booze-toting merchant vessel that was overtaken by none other than Blackbeard and sent to the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, Sloop Betty Vodka has enjoyed a much greater destiny than her ill-fated namesake. But not without some choppy water along the way.
Blackwater's belle had become so respected and sought after, she'd taken on a life of her own. In fact, Betty was drowning out the overall Blackwater brand. Her success was a good problem to have, but a problem nonetheless.
It didn't stop there. Picaroon Rum, Blackwater's other popular product line, had likewise started to develop its own identity. The success of these individual products meant there was very little shared brand...
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