TTB Label Approval Feedback Requested
TTB has invited ADI to speak to Label Specialists about issues distillers face during the label approval process. 
Please provide feedback and help shape our presentation to TTB. We hope this dialog will reduce rejections and change requests, which will save distillers and TTB time and money. Please complete the survey before July 23, 2018
when Eric Zandona will meet with TTB in Washington, DC.
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New Releases,
Events & Milestones
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Craft Distilling Expo 2018 Stand Bookings open
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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Craft Spirits Carnival this weekend in San Francisco
Craft Spirits Carnival provides an all-encompassing consumer and trade experience that explores the depth and breadth of each category of craft distilled expression.
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ISC plans to expand domestic cooperage operations
Plans include the construction of a new cooperage in Morehead, KY as well as the expansion and modernization of current cooperages in Missouri and Kentucky.
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June 4th - 10th is Negroni Week - Charity Benefits
June 4th - 10th is Negroni Week. Enjoy one of the best cocktails ever created and help Lee Spirits Co. raise money for local charities. More info.
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Fruition Brandy is back at Gulch Distillers
Join us in the tasting room for our release party on Monday,
Early last year we scooped up some surplus MacIntosh apples from a grower in the...
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Baltimore Whiskey Company rebrands Shot Tower Gin
The Baltimore Whiskey Company recently announced an updated branding of their premier product, Shot Tower Gin. As the first gin distilled in Baltimore since the Prohibition era, the new identity reflects Shot Tower Gin's connection to the 1920s...
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Cooper River Distillers Garage Sale Saturday June 9
Camden, New Jersey
We are not selling large pieces of distilling equipment yet - stay tuned to Facebook page. We have a handful of used barrels that we'll be selling first come, first served at 10am Saturday (NO SOONER!) $150/each for 15 gallon, $200 for 53 gallon
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Only a few more days to
Buy a tree, get a tree...and help Black Button buy the farm
Another important project for our farm is growing White Oak for bourbon barrel staves. For this reward, we will plant a tree in your honor as well as have a White Oak sapling...
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Bourbon Curious update:
Craft Distiller info. needed
Fred Minnick is updating Bourbon Curious. And since that book's publication, so many new craft distilleries have opened. Many are not on [his] radar.
If you're a craft distiller or know a craft distiller bottling bourbon, please contact Fred Minnick. Read more
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Distilling the South
A Guide to Southern Craft Liquors
by Kathleen Purvis
Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensively throughout the South to create this first-ever guide to the region's burgeoning craft-liquor movement, capturing her journey in the creation of six original Liquor Trails.
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Distillery Startup Workshop at Oregon State U. June 18 - 21
The class is designed to help distillers and entrepreneurs optimize the business side of distilling: raising capital, managing cash-flow, procuring raw materials, and strategic marketing for growth.
June 18 - 21, Corvallis, OR
More info
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Three Day Advanced Gin Class - October 8-10- 2018
Limited to 20 persons; three Master Gin distillers as leads; Contact us at 859-278-2533 or [email protected] to register TODAY!
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Registration is open for TTB Trade Practice Seminars
Are you concerned that you may be operating in violation of the "tied-house" rules? Should you be?
Chicago, IL - June 13
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Alternation of Premises for Storage of Tax-Determined and Non-Tax Determined Distilled Spirits
May 16, 2018
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is advising proprietors of distilled spirits plants (DSPs) that they may submit requests for approval to store tax-determined and non-tax-determined products on their premises in a manner that varies from the requirements in the TTB regulations.
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ADI map of distilleries
on Distilling.com
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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
2,812 spirits listed!
Apply today
and join the 578 micro-distilleries who are truly
craft.
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Bourbon without Borders: Gov. Bevin signs bill allowing customers to ship Kentucky spirits home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Gov. Matt Bevin ceremonially signed a new law [on June 1, 2018] that allows visitors to ship bottles of Kentucky's signature spirit home, then joined Bourbon Barons and legislative leaders to box and dispatch the first commemorative bottles to celebrate the historic occasion.
The new law allows visitors to ship up to 4.5 liters of spirits and four cases of wine per person when they visit a Kentucky distillery or winery.
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The Espresso Martini Was Coffee Cocktails' First Act. The Second Is Finally Here
By Chadner Navarro, VinePair
In the 1980s London-based bartender Dick Bradsell invented what has since become one of of the world's most popular cocktails: the Vodka Espresso. A rich, creamy combination of vodka, espresso, and coffee liqueur, this jolting concoction was the drink of choice of exhausted party animals well before Red Bull landed on every bar shelf across the globe. Served in a V-shaped cocktail glass, the drink became known as an Espresso Martini.
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Lolo Creek Distillery Tasting Room opens
Matt & Kasie Grunow "recently opened Lolo Creek Distillery which is adjacent to the family's restaurant, the famous 'Lolo Creek Steakhouse' in beautiful Lolo, Montana." More info.
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Girls rule at the Spirit Guild Distillery
By Susan Colby, World Craft Distilleries.com
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Morgan McLachlan head distiller at The Spirit Guild Distillery |
It's a hard job but someone has to do it! It's technical, physical, mechanical and involves manual labor and other skills traditionally associated with a "man's job." None of this phases Morgan McLachlan, the petite head distiller at The Spirit Guild Distillery in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District.
Coming from another, traditionally, man's job as a camera operator in film and television, Morgan says there is a lot of crossover between the two occupations. And with her background, she hasn't felt intimidated by it, but rather is fascinated by the art and craft associated with distilling, never having any doubts she could do the job.
"Any trade or craft has to be something you are passionate about," she asserts.
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Claire Smith-Warner on the future of Seedlip
By Nicola Carruthers, The Spirits Business
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Left-right, Claire Smith-Warner and Seedlip founder Ben Branson
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After a successful career in alcohol, Claire Smith-Warner speaks to The Spirits Business about her plans for booze-free Seedlip.
"I was with Belvedere and Moët-Hennessy for 15 years. It doesn't feel that long. I don't know how, but the time seemed to just fly; it's just crazy," enthuses Claire Smith-Warner, former director of spirits education at Moët-Hennessy.
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NB Gin opens 'luxury' distillery in Scotland
By Amy Hopkins, The Spirits Business
The Scottish gin brand received planning permission for its new distillery last year, announcing its intention to move to a 24-hour operation following "overwhelming" demand at home and overseas.
Based at Halfland Barns, near Tantallon Castle, NB Distillery offers a "luxury" guest experience that includes bespoke tours and sampling...
The distillery is said to be 'energy neutral', with solar panels, lighting and heating, and a plan to capture rainwater to use in the condensation process of production.
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Snoop Dogg breaks Guinness World Record for largest gin and juice
By Anika Reed, USA TODAY
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Snoop Dogg stirs the world's largest paradise cocktail after adding gin to it on a culinary stage at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival in Napa, Calif., alongside Top Chef Michael Voltaggio. A Guinness World Records official was on hand to certify the record of the 550 liter cocktail.
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Snoop took the stage at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival with fellow West Coast rapper Warren G and Top Chef Season 6 winner Michael Voltaggio, with the help of kitchenware brand Williams Sonoma, to break the Guinness World Record for the largest paradise cocktail on Saturday, May 26.
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Bill's Corner
Miscellany from
ADI Founder/President, Bill Owens
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Bill Owens photo exhibits in Europe
On the heels of a successful show at
Tbilisi
gallery in Georgia (
see photos
from
Revolutions. An Alternative Gaze
exhibition), Bill Owens' next photo exhibit, "
Riots
" is currently on display at
Milano Photo Week
.
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