Spirits Industry Launches “Ship My Spirits” Campaign in Support of Spirits Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in...
Spirits DTC Would Increase Illinois Jobs and Consumer Convenience
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The American Distilling Institute (ADI), Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), and the American Craft Spirits Association (ACSA) are three of the nation’s leading organizations representing distillers large and...
Editor’s Letter
I Read 10 Books So You Might Want to Read 1 or 2
This issue features a special cover feature, The Great Eight, recapping the eight (more accurately, ten) most monumental books in the history of American craft distilling. I...
Editor’s Letter Summmer 2022
We Finally Got COVID, So You Don’t Have To
After 2 years of wearing masks in public places, 2 vaccinations and 2 boosters, our family finally got COVID (as you may know, my better half Anne-Sophie runs the ADI Conference...
Editor’s Letter Fall 2022
Whatever you expect to find between the covers of a trade magazine, it’s probably not classical poetry. But in his story about whiskey clubs in this issue, journalist Scott Thomas Anderson quotes Roman poet Horace to capture that special...
ADI 2004 ALAMEDA: First Pot Still USA Conference a Success
Download 15 March 2004 Issue
The first ever Pot Stills USA Trade Show and Conference, a symposium to promote small scale artisan distilling, was held in the San Francisco Bay area on Feb. 27-28. Over 100 attendees attended the conference,...
Meet Henrik Zimmermann, American Distilling Institute’s New Director of Sales and Marketing
In April 2023, ADI welcomed Henrik Zimmermann to his new role as Director of Sales and Marketing. We’re thrilled to have Henrik’s deep expertise in sales, customer relations, and conference operations on board. If you haven’t gotten to meet...
New ADI Survey of Craft Distillers Shows Big Economic Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Shipping of...
Hayward, CA — According to a new survey of American Distilling Institute (ADI) members, direct-to-consumer shipping of spirits has been a critical revenue source during COVID-19 and serves as an important alternative sales channel for those craft distillers having...
The Distilling Renaissance is Here!
In 1983, when I opened Buffalo Bill’s Brewery, one of the first brewpubs in the United States (in Hayward across the bay from San Francisco), I had only the barest inkling of the renaissance that was about to take...
ADI Completes First Internship Program
At its 2007 conference held at Starlight Distillery in Indiana, ADI authorized the creation of a craft distilling internship.
The goal of the internship program was two-fold: to provide a supervised, hands- on craft-distilling experience to a qualified candidate, and...
