2018 ADI vendor advertising/exhibit info.
Contact
Matt Jelen for advertising, exhibit and Vendor Expo registration info.
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ADI Hands-on Distilling Workshops
Blending and Maturation
December 8-9, 2017
Location: Ironroot Republic Distillery, Dennison, TX
2 days of Blending & Maturati
on
instruction including: practical a
pplications of blending, selecting and balan
cing the proper components for the blend to achieve a targeted whiskey or rum profile, and the impact on flavor of spirit and wood.
Instructor: Nancy Fraley
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Registration open for 2018 ADI Judging of Craft Spirits
Enter your spirits in the
12th Annual Judging of Craft Spirits. One of the most prestigious international spirits competitions. Winners to be announced at the 2018 ADI Conference in Portland, OR.
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Peerless Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey ranked in Whisky Advocate's Top 20
Peerless Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey has been ranked by Whisky Advocate, as no. 15 of their Top 20 Whiskies of 2017. Peerless and its two-year-old Rye is the only craft producer and Rye being awarded in this year's list.
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Maverick Drinks named IWSC Spirits Distributor of the Year
For the second year in a row, and the third time in four years, Maverick Drinks has been named Spirits Distributor of the Year at the International Wine & Spirit Competition.
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JetBlue chooses 1857 Spirits as a BlueBud Business Program winner
Barber's Farm Distillery has been chosen as one of three businesses to participate in the third year of JetBlue's business mentoring program, BlueBuds.
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New Releases,
Events & Milestones
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The 'Virginia Spirits Holiday Cocktail Guide' will help you plan for holiday entertaining
'Tis a few weeks before Christmas
And all through the land,
Cocktail shakers are shaking
To meet festive sipping demand!
More...
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Dancing Goat Distillery opens in Cambridge, Wisconsin
...and launches Limousin Rye whiskey: a smooth and flavorful rye whiskey, both wonderfully neat & complex. Been a little over three years in the making, but we just opened to the public!
More info.
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District Distilling Tasting Room open house December 1
District Distilling Co. is excited to announce the unveiling of our all-new Tasting Room on Friday, December 1st, with cocktail samples and tasty bites with an Open House. Read more.
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KO Distilling launches Bare Knuckle Straight Bourbon
Bare Knuckle Bourbon joins small batch portfolio that celebrates the fighting spirit of America's craft producers. KO Distilling unveiled its third brown spirit - Bare Knuckle Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
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Richardo's Decaf Coffee Liqueur announces partnership with Black
Canyon Distillery
Richardo's Decaf Coffee Liqueur, the award-winning coffee liqueur has formed a partnership with Black Canyon Distillery to begin manufacturing the liqueur at the distillery's new facility in Mead, Colorado.
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Rocket Vodka: If you love apples, you'll love Launch III
You can really taste the apples. We started with 78% California apple juice and 22% Washington apple concentrate, squeezing in 68 apples per bottle, and all we added was fresh Sierra Nevada mountain water.
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Seven Stills' Darkstar November whiskey release
Darkstar November is our newest collaboration with Bottle Logic Brewing Company. We brewed Darkstar November, an imperial stout with rye and molasses and distilled the beer at Seven Stills. The whiskey was then barrel aged in New American Oak...
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Wilderness Trail plans special rum release
Wilderness Trail Distillery has two exclusive offerings during its Dec. 1 and 2 Holiday Open House. For its first annual holiday release, Wilderness Trail Distillery will offer a 375 ml bottle of single barrel, cask strength Harvest Rum. This 101-proof Harvest Rum will be available only in the gift shop.
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Chuckanut Bay Distillery launches Kickstarter campaign
We recently purchased the future home of Chuckanut Bay Distillery right in the heart of downtown Bellingham, WA - an 18,000 square foot historic building that we'll be seeking to restore to its former glory.
More info.
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Eye-catching advertisement
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Help Wanted: check ADI Forums for jobs, solutions
Help Wanted. Mine Hill Distillery is getting ready to open in an award winning landmark destination, including an 1860 cigar factory and riverfront 1872 train station. They have installed state of the art equipment, including a 1,500 L Kothe pot & column still. They will authentically produce vodka, gin as well as bourbons, ryes and whiskeys, honoring their slogan "Still Made in Connecticut". They are looking for a head distiller and welcome any qualified candidates. Founder Elliott Davis has spoken at ADI 2015, 2017 conferences.
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ADI map of distilleries
has been revised!
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Fall 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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Aid needed for our Puerto Rican "brothers"
Fellow distillers could use supplies
Vendors, distillers: opportunity to lend a hand: donate goods!
Ivan Torres of Crab Island Rum was about to do his first legal distillation when hurricane Maria hit. He had been working on his craft distillery since 2013. Before that, he was a moonshiner. He believes that the craft spirits industry is an excellent opportunity for the small island community of Vieques, Puerto Rico and does not want to give up on the distillery, despite the devastating blow from hurricane Maria. Read more/including list of items needed.
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San Juan Artisan Distillers in Vega Alta Puerto Rico:
In addition to the equipment needed at Crab Island Rum, Pepe Alvarez of
San Juan Artisan Distillers
in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico also lost a 40x50 Galvalume roof and 4 Metal Rollup Doors (approx 14x16' each) and suffered damage to his sugar cane crop (pictured above).
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UPDATE: as of press time, the following members have stepped up to help the Puerto Rican distilling community:
-Brad Brunson of Amorim Cork America will send 1,000 T-caps for bottles to Crab Island Rum.
-Alan Dikty of Allied Beverage Tanks will send consultant/master distiller Ian Smiley to help José (Pepe) Alvarez of San Juan Artisan Distillers run his first batch. ADI will pay to fly Ian Smiley on to Vieques to help out Crab Island Rum.
Do you have a roll-up door to donate? ADI can get it shipped.
Contact us to help out our Puerto Rican distilling "brothers."
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America's craft distilling industry was started
by immigrants
by Wayne Curtis, for
The Daily Beast
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| Jorg Rupf photo courtesy of St. George Spirits |
Four decades ago, a young judge named Jörg Rupf from Germany's Black Forest ventured to northern California. He had worked in the German administrative courts for several years by then, but in 1976 opted to take a leave to study at U.C. Berkeley. His subject was the relationship between government and the arts. But he learned something else: American beer and wine sucked.
If Rupf had come from a long line of cuckoo clock makers, the end of this story might have been very different. But he didn't. His mother's family were brewers, and he grew up drinking good beer and simple but satisfying table wine. He also drank delicious eau de vie-a distilled spirit commonly available in southwest Germany made from mashed and fermented fruit, including apples, pears and berries. It was rare in America, and Rupf wondered why no one was producing it here, especially since California offered a boundless cornucopia of amazing fruits.
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Spirited celebration marks the opening of Roslyn, Washington business
by Mary Swift, for the
Daily Record
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Members of prominent Roslyn families stand in front of stills that honor their family names at Heritage Distilling in Roslyn during a grand opening celebration earlier this month.
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ROSLYN, Washington - Four years ago, Cheri Marusa picked up the phone and called a man she'd never met. "I don't know you and you don't me," she said by way of introduction. "But we need to meet."
Marusa, president of the Roslyn Downtown Association (RDA), was searching for an anchor tenant for the historic NWI (Northwestern Improvement Co.) building in Roslyn which the RDA put a down payment on in 2011 and finished paying off in 2012. Built in the 1880s, the building was the company store when mining ruled Roslyn and surrounding communities.
The man she called was Justin Stiefel, CEO and co-founder of Heritage Distilling Co., then a recently-launched craft distillery based in Gig Harbor. Heritage Distilling has a growing reputation in the craft distilling industry and an established focus on honoring cultural heritage.
Marusa was convinced that if Heritage came to Roslyn the fit would suit both of them. She was right.
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Exceptional spirits surface at Rappahannock Cellars
by John McCaslin, RappNews
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So much flavor comes from the grape," notes Allan
Delmare
, whose custom-made stills resemble large woodwind musical instruments.
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Not all grapes grown at Rappahannock Cellars wind up in bottles of wine. Now, along with its award-winning chardonnay, meritage and cabernet franc, the renowned winery in Huntly is pouring a brandy mojito with spearmint, pressed vodka tonic with lime, brandy tonic with orange, and a Rappahannock mule with vodka and ginger.
"There are so many wineries and breweries cropping up these days, and there's only so many places you can go in one weekend, and we want to be on that list," explains Allan Delmare of the winery's added attraction, Dida's Distillery (pronounced did-uhs, which means "grandfather" in Croatian), a tribute to the Delmare family's grandfather who established a legacy of fruit farming stretching from California to Virginia.
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Tasmanian distiller produces spit bucket spirit
by Lauren Eads, The Drinks Business
A Tasmanian distiller so committed to the cause of sustainability and reducing waste has produced a spirit from 500 litres of wine swilled and spat out by guests at a two-day tasting.
Not wanting to see the vast quantity of discarded wine go to waste following the Rootstock sustainable wine festival in Sydney last year, Tasmanian distiller Peter Bignell, of Belgrove Distillery, hatched a plan to reuse liquid from the event's many spittoons to create a new spirit.
"I hate waste, absolutely hate waste," he told ABC Radio Hobart. "That bucket in the middle of the room with all the dregs of the wine and everyone's spit in it, that's a waste, that's going to get tipped down the drain. "I said 'If I took that [spit bucket] home and distilled it and brought it back next year, who would drink it?' and I think everybody's hands went up."
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The Block Distilling Co. mixes equal measures science and art
by Veronica Penney,
Westword
Michelle Flake and brothers Kraig and Kameron Weaver seized the opportunity to launch their distillery when the Block building became available just over two years ago. Inspiration for the distillery was a product of the booming craft-beer scene in Denver, but the founders' preference for cocktails and craft spirits led them down the route of distilling rather than brewing.
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Science and spirits: New distillery in
Wisconsin aims for precision and quality
by Allison Geyer, Isthmus
Nick Hanson and Dave Farnia met at age 19 when they were assigned lab partners in a UW-Madison engineering class. Nearly 20 years later, they're still friends - and working together again in a different kind of lab.
In September, the pair opened Two Tall Distilling at 5353 Maly Road in Sun Prairie, [Wisconsin]. Their spouses, Amy Hanson and Stephanie Farnia, are co-owners in the venture. It's a small facility at the end of a country road - 1,800 square feet with a tasting room and three stills producing gin, vodka, whiskey and specialty liqueur. "We thought maybe we had to apologize a bit about that," Stephanie Farnia says of the facility's modest size. "But we're finding that the small scale is letting us experiment."
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Bill's Corner
Miscellany from
ADI Founder/President, Bill Owens
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