3x the Conference at 2/3 the price!
* More than a dozen workshops
* 60 break-out sessions
* 175 vendors
...and the heart of the distilling community!
Join us in Portland for these highlights and much more
at the ADI Conference.
(Full schedule online)
DoubleTree Room Block Full
Hilton
still has space and is offering
free upgrades
to their boutique hotel the Duniway, across from the Hilton for a
limited time only.
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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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Merridale wins 6 craft spirit awards and Best in Class
Merridale Cidery & Distillery is raising their cocktail glasses given their recent wins at the Canadian Artisan Spirit Competition (CASC) on February 6th, 2018.
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Traveler's Rest American Single Malt Whiskey named a Top American Malt Whiskey by The Fifty Best
The Fifty Best, an Online Guide to the finest wines and spirits, awards a Double Gold Medal to the Single Malt Whiskey produced by the Park City, Utah-based Craft Distillery, Alpine Distilling.
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Virginia Distillery Company named to 2018 list of Best Places to Work in Virginia
"Since opening Virginia Distillery Company, we've worked hard to have a great culture here," said Virginia Distillery Company's CEO Gareth H. Moore. "We've always known it is a great place to work, but we're honored to be officially recognized,...
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New Releases,
Events & Milestones
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Chattanooga Whiskey Experimental Series Batch 004-006
Chattanooga Whiskey is excited to announce the latest releases in our Experimental Series: Batch 004, 005, and 006! The Release Party for this event will be held at our Experimental Distillery on February 21st, and tickets for this event sold out in a little over two hours!
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Spirits of Maryland: Southern Maryland on Saturday, February 24
Join the Maryland Distillers Guild at the PAX River Naval Air Museum for an afternoon of Southern Maryland heritage and innovation at the 2nd Annual Spirits of Maryland: Southern Maryland.
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Cocktail Class with Element Shrub at MISCellaneous Distillery 2/25/18
Join Charlie Berkinshaw of Element Shrub for a special cocktail class this Sunday, February 25th! Each ticket includes a bottle of your choice of shrub to mix at home and a 10% discount on any spirit purchases.
More info./tickets
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Long Island Spirits releases Pine Barrens™ the first "Bottled-in-Bond" American Single Malt Whisky
Long Island Spirits is celebrating it eleventh anniversary by announcing the release of Pine Barrens "Bottled-in-Bond"; the first ever American Single Malt Whisky that carries the Federal Governments highly coveted designation "Bottled-in-Bond".
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After 125 Years, Reading Terminal Market Gets Its Own Signature Vodka
Boardroom Spirits has distilled and bottled a vodka specifically to celebrate the 125th birthday of Philadelphia's iconic
Reading Terminal Market,
o
ne of America's largest and oldest public markets.
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Baltimore Whiskey Co. begins construction on geothermal system for new distillery
The Baltimore Whiskey Company announced that construction has begun on a state-of-the-art geothermal cooling system which will use naturally cool groundwater to save energy for their new distillery at the Union Collective. Construction is expected to be completed in early May when the new space opens.
More info.
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Valentine Distilling expands with purchase of custom-built Italian still
Valentine Distilling Co. founder Rifino Valentine expects the custom-built still he had shipped from Italy will grow his liquor production capacity tenfold.
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Save the Date: TTB Trade Practice seminars
Have you ever wondered why TTB keeps mentioning "inducement" when we're talking about trade practices? Are you concerned that you may be operating in violation of the "tied-house" rules? Should you be?
Miami, Florida - April 10, 2018
San Francisco, California - May 9, 2018
Chicago, Illinois - June 13, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts - July 18, 2018
More info.
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New DSP Permits issued
New Distilled Spirits Plant permits issued as of February 18, 2018.
Enlarge/more info
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ADI map of distilleries
on Distilling.com
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240 gallon Specific skid-mounted unit.
Pre-wired and plumbed with a mash ton/fermenter and two spirit holding tanks. Also available: a hot liquor tank and a portable pump.
Contact
for
more info.
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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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Oregon distillers could get a bigger shot of sales
State bill would boost local distilleries
by Edward Stratton,
The Daily Astorian
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Mike Helberg, owner of Cannon Beach Distillery, was one of two distillers to testify on behalf of a bill to let the industry avoid state fees on tasting room sales up to $250,000 a year. |
Two Clatsop County [Oregon] distillers and others around the state could keep all revenue from tasting rooms under a bill pending in Salem.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission buys in bulk and owns liquor sold retail at liquor stores or distillery tasting rooms. Distillers get 49 percent of the retail profits at liquor stores and 68 percent at tasting rooms.
Senate Bill 1564 would create a tasting room permitting system and allow up to $250,000 in sales per year without fees. The bill would allow multiple tasting rooms away from the distillery and let licensed out-of-state distillers open locations in Oregon.
Read more.
Related story:
Oregon distilleries face tough taxes, looking to pass bill to sell liquor tax free
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California Artisanal Distillers Guild Update
February 2018
by Cris Steller, The California Artisanal Distillers Guild
CADG Members: We have a lot on the move here in California... new legislation, educational opportunities in Sonoma and San Francisco and the opportunity for events in Southern California. The Golden State has seen tremendous growth since CADG pushed for the new Type 74 license in 2015. The most recent report from CA ABC shows 82 Craft Distillers in California. This is in addition to 94 Type 4 and 59 Type 3 license holders for a total of 227 distiller operations licensed in our state. At the same time, we are also seeing a move to have 3 new groups formed to represent San Diego, Central Coast and now the greater Southern California areas. This is all great and will help grow the industry.
What is needed now is for all these interests to come together and speak in a unified voice on what we all need. CADG was formed to represent all license types and focus on the legislative events in our state. Working together will help us achieve the change we need, it worked in 2012 and 2015.
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A spirited mission: the rise of local distilleries
by Marc Eisen, Isthmus [Wisconsin] magazine
How do you build a scene?
Word of mouth. Good word of mouth. And not just words either. But mouth as in taste! As in one friend telling another friend: You gotta go to the Distill America tasting event at The Edgewater!
Jeremy Zielke, a whiskey-loving corporate attorney in Madison, first heard of the annual distilled spirits celebration from his colleague Kevin Bartrom, who got clued to it by me, who heard about it a decade ago from Star Liquor manager Adam Casey. Read more.
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This new distillery is making gin, beer, brandy and whiskey in Mammoth Lakes
by Esther Tsung,
Los Angeles Times
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From left, Shelter Distilling owners Matt Hammer, Jason Senior and Karl Anderson.
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Sporting a portfolio of spirits resonant of the Eastern Sierra, Shelter Distilling, the first distillery to open in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., launched in mid-December. The small-batch craft distillery and brewery is in the heart of the Village at Mammoth - just steps from the main square and the gondola leading to Canyon Lodge, the ski lodge nearby. So far, the operation counts three types of gin, rose-hips-infused white dog whiskey, vodka, apple brandy, blue agave spirit and an ongoing series of one-off beers to its name - and many more libations to come.
Spearheading the distillery's operations are a trio of owners who moved to Mammoth at the turn of the century to ride out their passion for snowboarding. Karl Anderson, who is originally from Northern California, and Jason Senior, from Pennsylvania, were in charge of the brewing process at Mammoth Brewing Co. Anderson, who was lead brewer, worked there for seven years; Senior, who was head brewer, worked there for 10. The third owner of Shelter, Matt Hammer, lived out a professional snowboarding career before retiring 10 years ago to open Black Velvet Coffee, the premier coffee roaster and coffee shop in town, with his wife, Gracie. Since then, they've added an upstairs wine bar to their sleek, minimalist space.
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Annapolis Valley distilleries pick up awards at Canadian Artisan Spirits Competition
by Lawrence Powell, NG News [Canada]
Barrelling Tide Distillery in Port Williams alone won three golds, two silvers, and a best-in-class for their liqueurs. Still Fired in Lequille picked up a bunch more. The national spirit competition was designed exclusively for small-batch Canadian distilleries.
See more Awards/Recognition, left column.
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Award-Winning distiller plots a Ballard location
Heritage Distilling is now opening two Seattle locations this spring
by Tim Forster, Eater Seattle
Award-winning bourbon-and-more distiller Heritage Distilling Co. is planning to open a tasting room and retail location in Ballard by the end of spring.
Community publication My Ballard noticed the distillery's application for a liquor license, and confirmed the details with the Gig Harbor-based booze-makers this week. The distillery has been showered in awards (particularly from the American Distilling Institute) since its founding in 2012, spending several years as the most-awarded craft distillery in the country.
Those awards likely helped the maker of vodka, gin, whisky and bourbon make major expansions - it counts two Gig Harbor locations (including the flagship), and expanded to Eugene, Oregon in 2016 and Roslyn in 2017, opening production facilities and tasting rooms in both cities.
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Founder K John Wood moved southwest to plant the flag for his eponymous distillery
By Chris Meehan, Company Week
Most companies move closer to the city to grow. That wasn't the case with Ouray [Colorado]'s lone craft spirit maker, which moved from Berthoud on Colorado's Front Range to the "Switzerland of America" to grow into its own.
The same year the company launched, its Jinn Gin won a gold medal at the New York World Wine and Spirits Competition and quickly found a distributor in Republic National. "Within a year of that, we were in about 300 outlets statewide," Wood explains. "Our facility at the time was an oversized RV garage off a tight alleyway in Berthoud. My wife and I realized that to make and barrel whiskey we were going to need to expand our physical footprint."
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From the Arctic circle
(story, top of page),
to the bottom of the globe, micro distilleries discovered
Ross Rabe is a Montana native who works seasonally in wildland fire management. This past off-season, he traveled to Patagonia, Chile, where he stumbled across Last Hope Distillery, the southernmost micro-distillery in the world.
In this edition of Life, Distilled, Ross joins us to share the story of his experience and a bottle of Patagonia Dry Gin from Last Hope.
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Bill's Corner
Miscellany from
ADI Founder/President, Bill Owens
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ADI Discount Program for NYISC
The 8th Annual New York International Spirits Competition is held in the heart of New York City.
Open to all commercially produced spirits from around the world. You do not have to be imported or sold in New York to submit!
The New York International Spirits Competition is providing a discount to ADI members as their way to support the craft community.
Discount offer.
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