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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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Enter your spirits in the
2019 Judging of Craft Spirits
The largest and most-respected judging devoted to craft spirits: In 2018, ADI received more than 1000 Spirits from five continents!
At right, 2019 Craft Spirits Judge Peggy Noe Stevens, the world's first Master Bourbon Taster and founder of Bourbon Women Association.
2019 Judges.
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Inaugural Distilling Research Grant Auction a Great Success
The 2018
Distilling Research Grant Auction was a great success. The first online auction raised a combined total of
$25,661 to be utilized in grants to further research and education in the distilling industry. An independent advisory committee of industry experts will review research proposals submitted and award the grants.
More Info.
Bid winners will be contacted by Nov 30.
Thank you to our generous sponsors for supporting distilling research and education!
American Distilling Institute/Nancy Fraley - American Spirits Exchange - Barrels Unlimited - Black Button Distillery - BSG - Cargill - Dalkita - Fermsolutions - Five x 5 Solutions - Flow Design - Great Western Malt - Independent Stave Company - MGP - Minnetonka Brewing & Equipment - North Coast Container - Prospero Equipment Corp. - Saverglass - San Francisco Herb Co. - Signature Spirits - StillDragon - Supercap - Tapi USA - The Barrel Mill - Universal Packaging - Winemakeri/Whitestar
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New Releases,
Events & Milestones
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Post-Thanksgiving Funday at Witherspoon Distillery
Forget Black Friday shopping and bring the family out for "Post-Thanksgiving Funday" at Witherspoon Distillery! We'll have BBQ, Texas football on the big screen, additional tour times, extended hours, custom bottle engraving, live music and more. Read more.
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Litchfield Distillery 12-Year Cask Strength Bourbon
Our Limited Release 12-Year
Ca
s
k Strength Bourbon Whiskey is born from a s
election of aged barrels we purchased before our launch.
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Single Barrel Rum and 50/50 Pineapple Dark Rum releases
As usual, this Black Friday will mark another annual release of our [Maggie's Farm Rum] Single Barrel aged rum, but also a new release of our 50/50 Pineapple dark rum.
This is the first allocation of our aged Single Barrel rum since Black Friday of last year. Using our distillate made from fermented turbinado sugar,
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$1 Hot Hopscotch, Moscow Mules, Bramble Mules at
Cardinal Spirits
distillery all weekend, when you bring in a receipt showing you shopped a locally-owned business in Bloomington!
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Steve Fox joins Preiss Imports
Preiss Imports is pleased to announce Steve Fox will be joining the team to fill the newly-formed position of National Sales Manager....Steve [has] historical, accurate knowledge of specialty spirits and Single Malt Whiskies in particular.
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Tenth Ward Distilling Launches Crowd Funding Campaign
Tenth Ward is a woman-owned micro distillery that has been open for 2 years and is already bursting at the seams!
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We're Thankful for You! Updates from Copper Fox Distillery
We [Copper Fox Distillery] are excited to report that construction on "Building D" (as in D for Distillery ...) is well underway. This is the main building in front of the property that will be the heart of our production operations in Williamsburg...
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It's amazing to us [Gin Foundry] that five years on from the very first Gin Annual, we've got more to write about than ever before.
..This edition is double the size of previous years, packed with content and reviews and predictions for the future
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Repeal Rye Release - Dec. 5
Every December 5th Great Lakes Distillery crafts, barrels and bottles our special Repeal Reserve Rye Whiskey. The 2018 single barrel batch was crafted on Dec. 5th in 2013. Read more.
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Job Posting: TTB Auditor
We are seeking candidates to fill two auditor positions at our National Revenue Center, in Cincinnati, OH.
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Rich Vanilla Rum Cream
Ingredients:
2oz Single Estate Old South Georgia Rum
¼ oz vanilla extract
2oz cream
Ritual:
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a coupe. Garnish with grated nutmeg.
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Hit Me Baby One More Glühwein
Serving Size: 5oz
Servings: 21 People
1.5L (Two bottles) red wine - we suggest Shiraz
750ml Bluebird Alpine Liqueur
Peels and juice from 1 orange
150ml Honey
750ml Cream sherry
Simply combine all ingredients in a slow cooker and simmer. Sweeten with honey as needed.
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Fall issue of Distiller magazine on newsstands and online
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 mobile-optimized ADI
map of distilleries
on Distilling.com
Visit our New(!) mobile-optimized
map page and find the 15 distilleries nearest you!
Tap on a distillery pin and then tap "Open Map" to get directions to the distillery on your phone. The map default is our home town (Hayward, CA), but you can either set it to a zip code, or allow it to geolocate you. You will need to go into your
settings
and allow your browser to "geolocate."
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ADI's Certification Program
now has
3,568 spirits listed!
Apply today
and join the 727 micro-distilleries who are truly
craft.
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In Memoriam: George Racz, Las Vegas Distillery founder and Pioneer of Nevada craft distilling
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| Left to right: George Racz, founder of Las Vegas Distillery; Bill Owens, founder of ADI; Mark Tofanelli, past-President of Good Spirits Distributing; and Sam Wise, President and Founder VapourPoint, LLC, Nevada Whiskey Project. |
Las Vegas Distillery had its first legal commercial distillation on April 1, 2011. George wrote the draft for the Nevada Craft Distillery bill, which laid the foundation for craft distilling in Nevada.
From Facebook post:
It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the death of our beloved husband and father George Racz on November 18, 2018. His laughing, cheering, greater-than-life personality will be missed by many. A Celebration of Life Memorial will be held on Sunday, November 25, 2018, at 2:00 PM at Las Vegas Distillery location. A Memorial Fund was set up in his honor at Go-Fund-me. Video featuring George.
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California's Pisco Trail
By Nico Vera, The New Worlder
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The soil at Marian Farms. |
From California's Gold Rush until Prohibition, San Francisco's spirit of choice was pisco-a clear, unaged, grape brandy from Peru's Ica Valley. Wineries and distilleries that have been making pisco there for over 400 years are connected by La Ruta del Pisco, or The Pisco Trail. Today, Marian Farms and Frísco Brandy are forging California's Pisco Trail by making a pisco-inspired grape brandy that honors the brandy's Peruvian roots and the spirited history of brandy in California.
The Grapes and Fire Water of Peru and California
Spain gave Peru and California a common viticultural heritage when it brought the Listán Prieto grape to the Americas in the early 1500's. In Peru, Listán Prieto became known as Negra Criolla, while in California, Listán Prieto became known as the Mission Grape.
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An Alchemist Tries to Save the Soul of Rum
From
His Boston Kitchen
By Wayne Curtis, for The Daily Beast
Stephen Shellenberger is digging into ancient rum research
in hopes of helping modern distillers.
Stephen Shellenberger lives in a narrow apartment on a quiet one-way street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One gets the feeling that the 35-year-old does not cook much. His kitchen table and counter are overrun by dozens of liquor samples in small, brown lab bottles, along with an array of stainless steel and glass equipment, some of which looks as if it escaped a high school laboratory circa 1958, and all of which appears inscrutable.
Welcome to Shellenberger's time machine, the place where he's exploring the depths of distilling past. There is a device that measures surface tension, a collection of round bottomed flasks, and tall glass apparatus clamped to stainless rods. Here, between the sink and the stove, is his pride and joy-a birectifier, which consists of glass tubes and coils and heating elements. It's a device he rescued from obscurity and is trying to usher back into circulation.
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Distiller File: Chris Fredrickson at Traverse City
Whiskey Company By Tim Tebeau, My North, Traverse City, Michigan
Upon discovering a set of his great-grandfather's distilling patents at the family farm, a whiskey wormhole opened up for Traverse City native, Chris Fredrickson that led to the founding of the Traverse City Whiskey Company in 2012 and their downtown distillery two years later. We sit down with Chris to talk whiskey mechanics and get an Ol' Fashioned recipe to ward off the first freeze.
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Potent History Comes Full Circle at Dutch's Spirits
From Mobster Moonshine Operation to Above-Board Distillery
By Anne Pyburn Craig, Chronogram
On October 10, 1932, the FBI descended on a secluded, pretty spot in quiet Pine Plains. The innocently named Harvest Homestead Farm was a cover for what might've been the most impressive operation of the entire bootlegging era. Owned by mobster Dutch Schultz, the property encompassed a warren of underground tunnels and bunkers where the Feds found two 2,000-gallon stills and 10,000 pounds of sugar.
On October 10, 2018-86 years later to the day-the current owner of the property, Brendan McAlpine, got the news that the federal government had approved his distilling license to operate Dutch's Spirits Distillery. If there's an afterlife, surely that enigmatic gangster Dutch Schultz is grinning somewhere.
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Australian distillers demand reduction
in 'spirits super tax'
By Deborah Jackson,
The Shout
At the Australian Distillers Association (ADA) annual conference in Adelaide last week, delegates were united and vocal in their opposition to the tax regime that spirits are subject to.
Under Australian law, distilleries are beholden to an $84.51 excise duty per litre of alcohol sold. The tax raised from a single nip of gin in Australia is $1.06, which is around 10 times the amount levied in the US, and more than twice as much as packaged beer and four times higher than commercial cider.
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Related article:
'We need government support': [Australian] distillers call for spirits to be taxed like wine
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Shane Casey, head distiller at Brix Distillers in Australia.
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The Trend of Organic Alcoholic Beverages: Labeling Requirements Craft Distillers Should Know
By Jason S. Cetel, GrayRobinson PA
Over the past decade, sophisticated consumers wanting control over the foods and beverages they consume have demanded transparency from producers. This demand for knowledge about food and drink has been fueled, in part, by public health and the desire for nutritious diets. Socially-conscious consumers are mindful that ingesting more categorically "healthy" food reduces some of the public health epidemics like diabetes and obesity, as well as the economic and ecological impact of mass-produced food and the power of Big Agriculture.
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Bill's Corner
Miscellany from
ADI Founder/President, Bill Owens
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Turkey Chase: Happy Thanksgiving from ADI
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Wild turkey gives chase in downtown San Rafael, CA. Video clip by Andrew Faulkner.
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Bill Owen's Iconic Photography Exhibit,
Suburbia, on Display at UC Berkeley
A selection of Owen's images are on display at a free exhibit in UC Berkeley's North Gate Hall. While not a traditional gallery, the photos and their intriguing captions are on view along the corridors of the historic 1906 building as part of an ongoing series on documentary photography sponsored by the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The exhibit celebrates a new edition of Owens's acclaimed book Suburbia, first published in 1972.
Exhibit runs through January 7. Read more.
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