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After a year of planning, four days of bottle sorting and three marathon days of tasting spirits, the mood coming out of the 2016 Judging of Craft Spirits was that this was our best judging ever… until next year. A...

The American Distilling Institute’s 2016 Spirits Conference and Vendor Expo landed this year on the beautiful city of San Diego, CA, for an intense six days of educational exchange and networking. More than 1,500 members of the distilling community...

Introduction The US Craft Distilling market continued to grow and mature through last year. We identified 425 producing craft distilleries at year’s-end 2013, including 74 new entrants. The market continues to grow along the same trajectory as the Craft Brewing...

It may have taken more than 80 years for it to happen, but craft distilling has emerged from the secrecy of hollows, backwoods and old warehouses to climb on the cover of Fortune Magazine.  As Fortune reports, a 40%...

The 11th annual ADI conference and vendor expo convened this year in the beautiful Pacific Northwest city of Seattle, WA. More than 1,000 attendees and over a hundred vendors gathered downtown in the shadow of Seattle’s iconic Space Needle...

Fire water: experimental smoked whiskeys Darek Bell Bowling Green, Corsair Distillery, 2014 Paperback/200 pages ISBN 978-0983350019 Available @ Amazon Darek Bell is the owner or Corsair Distillery and author of Alt Whiskeys: Alternative Whiskey Recipes and Distilling Techniques for the Adventurous Craft Distiller. Bell received...

Progress continues to be made on Federal Excise Tax Parity. Distillers across the country have been hard at work meeting with their legislators and asking for support of S. 2169 by Sen. Kirsten Gilibrand (D-NY) and H.R. 4083 by...

Whiskey and moonshine production were the theme of ADIs Hands-on Distilling Workshop July 12 through 17th, where fourteen students hailing from California to Maine learned about the craft of making whiskey. This summer’s class was lead by the very...

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...

In applying for the ADI Internship, I focused on two things: What I wanted for myself in terms of a deeper understanding of the art of distilling, and the opportunity to observe the effects over time using several different...