ADI Announces Best Eco-Packaging Award for 2020 Competition
In the last few years, more and more companies have been creating spirits packaging with an eye to greater sustainability. To support this growing trend, the American Distilling Institute (AD) is pleased to announce that it is adding Best...
ADI Research Endowment Auction and Grant have opened!
In only its second year, the American Distilling Institute’s Research Grant Endowment has shown tremendous growth, greatly multiplying the number of research grants to be awarded in 2019.
“We are excited to see ADI’s Research Grant program growing, thanks to...
American Distilling Institute 2019 Conference and Expo
Roaming 50,000 square feet of expo floor in the massive Colorado Convention Center feels like a workout. But such a workout in the distilling industry means sipping experimental spirits from fellow distillers, shopping for stills and bottle labels or...
13th Annual Judging Award Winners
The 2019 Judging of Craft Spirits once again showed itself to be a unique snapshot of the industry. Spirits entered into the competition this year indicate an overall increase in the quality of craft spirits as well as some...
ADI to Make Public Comment to TTB
On November 26, 2018, TTB published a notice of proposed rulemaking entitled “Modernization of the Labeling and Advertising Regulations for Wine, Distilled Spirits, and Malt Beverages.” This proposal is a significant reorganization and amendment of the rules that govern...
Was the Emerald City a Mirage? How Portland, Oregon, has Gone from ...
In 2010, five distillers who’d set up shop near one another in southeast Portland got together to see if some cooperation could lift all boats. They formed a collaborative known as Distillery Row, coordinating weekend hours to encourage more...
The Bubble Cap Award
The Bubble Cap Award for Distillery of the Year represents the best that the distilling community has to offer. Every year, it is a tough decision: not only picking the recipient, but also passing by others who are worthy....
Judging of Craft Spirits
In 2007, when ADI held its first annual spirits competition, there were fewer than 100 craft distilleries in the USA, and the Judging awarded just 12 medals. Eleven years later, the number of craft distillers in the country has...
What You Should Know But Don’t Know Because You Didn’t Go to ADI’s Annual...
Duncan Holaday is pretty sure he’s diagnosed what ails many ADI members. It’s an affliction whose symptoms include the conscription of every household vase and pot as a fermentation vessel and spouses hollering down the cellar stairs to ask...
Craft Spirits Conference & Expo Overview 2018
Duncan Holaday is pretty sure he’s diagnosed what ails many ADI members. It’s an affliction whose symp-toms include the conscription of every household vase and pot as a fermenta-tion vessel and spouses hollering down the cellar stairs to ask...
