Winter 2017 Issue

Eighty Years of Rapid Maturation Studies: Why Are We Not There Yet?

Part 2 of 3: A review of spirit in wood maturation, with some speculations on rapid maturation and future potential Abstract/Overview. How many trees died in...

Rye? : That’s nice. What type of rye and where exactly did it grow?...

“We once had thousands of stills producing regional varieties of spirits across the country,” says Meredith Grelli, who, with her husband, Alex, founded Wigle...

Book Reviews

Calvados: The Spirit of Normandy Charles Neal San Francisco: Board and Bench Publishing, 2011 ISBN: 9780615446400 766 pages, Hardcover $60 from the publisher Charles Neal is the owner of Charles...

A Whiskey by Any Other Name

At the end of 2014, the TTB issued a clarifying “Frequently Asked Question (FAQ)” regarding age statements on whiskey labels. It was significant, as...

Ditching Trashy Events: Five Steps

As a distillery owner, I have spent nearly 10 years attending every kind of tasting and cocktail event hosted in the spirits world, in...

Legal Considerations for Leasing or Purchasing Real Estate for Distilleries

With the growth of the distilling business, landlords are paying more attention to potential tenants in this industry, which present a viable solution for...

Paving the Way: Meet Three Women Shaping American Craft Spirits

According to the Craft Spirits Data Project, there are more than 1,300 craft distilleries in the USA, and only a handful with a female...

Optimize Project Cost with Foresight: Insights into Planning Your Next Distillery Project

An increasingly competitive marketplace challenges distilleries to plan new distillation facilities, or upgrade existing ones, with more careful attention to the three components of...

A Tale of Two Distilleries: Exploring Two Paths to Building a Code-Compliant Distillery

As the craft-spirits industry expands and gains prominence nationwide, there has been an accompanying increase in scrutiny by building and fire officials. The applicable...

The Quest for Local Grains

“We are ready for our first batch of whiskey!” my husband Steve exclaimed. “Where’s the grain?” For two years we had spent every evening, weekend...

Gin, in the Australian Style

In the Summer 2016 issue of Distiller, the concept of Australian Gin, or Bush Gin, as a style in its own right was discussed....

Interview with Distiller Christian Krogstad at House Spirits Distillery

No conversation about spirits in Portland—and Oregon as a whole—is complete without talking about pioneering House Spirits Distillery (https://housespirits.com). Christian Krogstad was early to...

Interview with Camille Cavan, Bar Manager at Quaintrelle

Portland has no shortage of bartenders, it’s true. And plenty with great bar acumen. But to find one who is experienced in spirits and...

Top 10 Portland Bars

Portlandia and Powell’s Books, breweries and Pacific Northwest cuisine, Portland (aka PDX) wears the mantle of hipster city… and that it is: a green...

When Jörg Met Steve

Excerpt from Whiskey Business: How Small-Batch Distillers Are Transforming American Spirits Craft spirits was just toddling forth when an Oregon lawyer-turned-businessman approached the owner of...