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New Releases,
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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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Early bird price ends on Labor Day
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Craft Distilling Expo 2018
The 2018 Craft Distilling Expo will take place in London at The Boiler House Brick Lane on the September 26 + 27, 2018
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Townshend's Distillery at
Tea Fest PDX
Saturday, July 21, we'll be joining our friends at Brew Dr. Kombucha and Townshend's Tea at
Tea Fest PDX. We'll be sampling a very special matcha cocktail and teaching a class on Using Tea in Cocktails.
More info.
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New Riff Distilling hosting a Roast and a Toast
Roast: Sunday July 22nd
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Hang out on the Terrace of New Riff Distilling for summer cocktails with Copper & Kings and the best-roasted pork in the city. More.
July 31st 2018: Aiming for a Guinness World Record at the launch of New Riff Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Purple People Bridge between Kentucky & Ohio.
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Bartender Competition - entry deadline: Friday, July 27
The Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo
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s on the hunt to find the best bartender in the Los Angeles region through the inaugural
Hip Sip: Battle of the Modern Bartender competition, Sunday, August 19, 2018.
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Copper & Kings relaunches absinthe in new packaging
Copper & Kings has made brandy-based absinthes since inception, and like it has for American Brandy, it has carved a space of quality distillation technique and aggressive innovation. The flagship Absinthe Blanche has been joined in the past with limited release vapor distilled absinthes (in lavender, citrus and ginger variants) and Zmaj aged in Serbian Juniper wood barrels...
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Litchfield Distillery's Strawberry Vodka Batch #2
This year's local strawberry crop yielded wonderfully sweet and fragrant fruit--perfect for infusing our Strawberry Vodka.
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Prairie Pear coolers (featuring Tall Grass Gin) now available from Capital K Distillery
A delicious collaboration by Capital K Distillery and Fort Garry Brewing, the Prairie Pear Tall Grass Gin Cooler is guaranteed to be your new summer go to. Made with Tall Grass Gin, pear juice, and lightly carbonated water (that's it!)
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Manifest Distilling partners to bring products to Georgia and South Carolina; releases Chardonnay barrel-aged gin
Manifest Distilling recently formalized a partnership with the Pacific Southern Wine Company covering Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
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Nautical and Nice: Ian Buxton's '101 Rums To Try Before You Die'
Whether a well-chosen rum at your favourite bar or an investment for your cellar is of interest to you personally, Buxton deftly helps the reader navigate the whole world of rum, his route taking in the Caribbean and Queensland via Guatemala and Scotland,
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Deirdre Mahlan Elected Chair of the Distilled Spirits Council, Beam Suntory's Clarkson Hine Named Council Interim President & CEO
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Distilled Spirits Council at its summer Board of Directors meeting elected Diageo North America President Deirdre Mahlan Chair of the national trade association,
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Hamilton Distillers' Whiskey Del Bac awarded Double Gold
For the third year in a row, Whiskey Del Bac has won a Double Gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
This year our Dorado received a Double Gold medal, our Distiller's Cut received a Gold medal, and our Classic received a Silver medal.
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Myer Farm Distillers earns Gold and most medals of all entrants in N.Y. competitions
Myer Farm Distillers was recently awarded two Gold Medals during the Great American International Spirits Competition and four Silver medals (the most awards of any one distillery) at the New York Distilled Spirits Competition...
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Final week:TTB label approval
feedback requested
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Permits Online Unavailable
July 26 - 30, 2018
Permits Online will be shut down July 26 through July 30 so that we can implement major improvements to the system.The New Permits Online will be available on July 31, 2018.
More info.
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ADI map of distilleries
on Distilling.com
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Latest Edition of Nano Distilling book now on Amazon
The Nano Distillery: The Future of Distilling
by American Distilling Institute, Bill Owens, 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.
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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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ADI's Certification Program now has
3,522 spirits listed!
Apply today
and join the 742 micro-distilleries who are truly
craft.
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Does a Whiskey Brand Need to Do Its Own Distilling?
We try to put this age-old question to bed.
By Heather Greene, The Daily Beast
"I heard certain whiskies that aren't distilled by the actual distillery listed on the label and come from somewhere else, can make you sick!"
A woman excitedly told me this factoid at a private whiskey tasting that I recently hosted. I assured her that the bourbon I was pouring would not make her sick-unless, of course, she drank too much of it.
The next day, a few journalists called me alarmed by a story that they had just read about brands bottling whiskey they didn't make but had bought on the open market. Several emails came in with headlines like: "Can we talk to you about shady whiskey companies?"
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Seattle distillers make a spirited case
for
barrel-aged gin
By AJ Rathbun,
Seattle Magazine
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Captive Spirits founders Holly Robinson and Ben Capdevielle produce Big Gin aged in old bourbon barrels. |
When drinkers consider brown-hued spirits that have spent time in barrels, whiskey is the booze that usually comes to mind. But it hasn't always been that way. In the 18th century, gin, too, was stored, shipped and sold in barrels-before it developed its current reputation as a clear, young, juniper-heavy spirit bottled in glass immediately after distillation.
About 10-15 years ago, U.S. craft distillers started slowly experimenting again with aging gin in barrels, which means the spirit has spent some time in a wooden vessel after the distilling process. Since then, the idea of barrel-aged gin-sometimes also referred to as "cask-finished" or "dark gin"-has been seeping into the cocktail consciousness, and many Washington distillers are leading the way.
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Delaware's liquor industry growing
through collaboration
By Ian Gronau,
Delaware State News
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Mike Rasmussen, left, and Ron Gomes, co-owners of
Painted Stave Distilling in Smyrna, stand outside their soon-to-be completed barrel house.
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Although small, Delaware's distilled spirits industry is relying on a creative and collaborative recipe to grow. With the newest addition of easySpeak Distilling in Milford last December, there are about four in the state. Several of them are making large investments in their future, and with the signing of House Bill 373 last month - a law that permits licensed Delaware craft distilleries, breweries and wineries to sell one another's products for on-site consumption - sustained revenue growth in the sector may be possible.
Appealing to trend to transform distilleries into "destinations," Painted Stave Distilling in Smyrna is in the midst of adding a 6,000 square-foot patio to their location. Also, they just completed an over $200,000 pole-barn style barrel house on the rear end of their property.
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Distilled spirits post another year of volume increases, per the 2018 Liquor Handbook
By Beverage Information Group
NORWALK, Conn., July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The distilled spirits industry saw its 20th consecutive year of volume growth, rising 2.1% in 2017 to 227.7 million nine-liter cases. According to the Beverage Information Group's 2018 Liquor Handbook, consumers are spending more and drinking more-an increase of 6.7 million cases over the previous year. The ongoing interest in high-end and super-premium products across the spirits segments, combined with continued confidence in the U.S. economy, helped fuel the growth.
What's driving the premiumization trend? Consumers today have more opportunities to expand their knowledge of all beverage alcohol categories. They can explore their increasing options with the help of brand ambassador programs, experiential events/tastings and the bartending/mixologist community. Read more.
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Bourbon startup to open $9.7m
Kentucky distillery
By Nicola Carruthers, The Spirits Business
Paducah-based RH Resolute Distillery will move to a previously unopened distillery in Hickman, western Kentucky. The distillery will be the company's first production home and will create 17 jobs.
The firm will finish constructing the distillery and begin distilling for the bulk spirits market by late summer. It will initially produce 400 barrels per week and increase to a projected maximum capacity of 2,600 barrels per week. Read more.
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Owners of Evil Roy's Distillery discuss business
By Erin Hawkins, Sequin Gazette
Evil Roy's Distillery serves several creative alcoholic concoctions, from a salsa flavored agave spirit to a pumpkin based rum to a green gin at its new tasting room at 209 S. Sequim Ave.
Business owners Eric and Janice Oster said their distillery [held] a grand opening for its tasting room from 4:30- 9 p.m. on Friday, July 13, with a ribbon cutting at 5 p.m.
Eric says distilling has been a part of his life since he was a young child. He learned basic distilling from his father Roy, after whom his business is named, and continued learning about the process with his brother over the years. What once was a hobby is now Eric's full-time job. Read more
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Family-owned business takes chef's approach
to whiskey-making
By Rebecca Clifford-Cruz, Las Vegas Sun
Nicholas "Nik" Strauser was 6 when he started learning how to cook from his mother and grandmother in Hawaii. He would grow up to become a professional cook, then eventually move to Las Vegas. His knowledge of cooking and enjoyment of whiskey led his wife to suggest he make his own spirits. So he poured himself into the process, and the result was N. Scott Distillery.
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How Matchbook Distilling Company Can Make Any Custom Spirit You Dream Up
By Andy Meek, Tasting Table
The female-led distillery is looking to shake up the spirits world
Leslie Merinoff is tired of typical run-of-the-mill liquor stores, where the shelves, she argues, are filled with the same bottles available everywhere else, most likely containing the same dozen or so recipes.
Though the U.S. spirits industry is witnessing a "craft boom," the scales are still very much tipped toward big players who can afford to invest enough coin to achieve scale. The small producers? Not so much. Luckily, Merinoff is out to change all that. Read more
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The most iconic drink in every state
Infographic By Danielle Grinberg, VinePair
Ours is a country of enormous geographic breadth and diversity, and so, unsurprisingly, drinking preferences vary by state. Using a BuzzFeed Community poll from March 2018, VinePair mapped what readers voted the most iconic beer, wine, cocktail, and spirit in every state. Some picks are new to us, such as Alaska's tricolor concoction of Kahlua, Baileys, and Crown Royal Canadian Whisky. Others, like New Jersey's shot of choice, are exceedingly familiar.
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Bill Owens photography part of Milan Photo Week
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