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Tattersall Becomes America’s First Unionized Craft Distillery

Workers at Tattersall Distillery have voted to unionize, the first craft distillery in the country to do so.

CITYPAGES



The Pandemic Delivers Blows to America’s Distilling Scene

A startling new study from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) and ADI shows that the craft distilling industry is in huge trouble.

FORBES



Powhatan Distillery Advocates for Beverage Industry

After weathering an unprecedented first half of 2020 and all of the challenges it brought, Powhatan, VA’s Three Crosses Distilling Co. is speaking out about another looming threat.

RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH



South Florida Distilleries Sit on Unsold Hand Sanitizer

South Florida craft distilleries are sitting on hundreds of gallons of unsold hand sanitizer–with little prospect for moving it.

SUN SENTINEL



PLCB Fights Order To Reveal Liquor Licenses

Pennsylvania is fighting a court battle to keep its total number of liquor licenses a secret.

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER



NY Gov. Cuomo Legalizes Ice Cream Made With Liquor

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed an executive order allowing the manufacturing and sale of alcohol-infused frozen dairy desserts.

THE HILL



Report shows Pennsylvania liquor sales lagging other control states

Pennsylvania liquor sales in June lagged far behind other control states across the country, following a downward trend that’s persisted since the onset of the pandemic.

TIOGA PUBLISHING



New Distillery Offers Lifeline to Houston’s Bartenders

A new distillery in North Houston opened on the eve of the pandemic, and quickly pivoted to making hand sanitizer… and hiring out-of-work bartenders.

HOUSTON CHRONICLE



New Orleans Closes Bars, Bans Takeout Booze Sales

New Orleans’ mayor is shutting down the city’s bars because of rising coronavirus numbers and is also forbidding restaurants to sell alcoholic drinks to go.

REVIEW-JOURNAL



12,000 Bottles of Templeton Rye Spill Onto Missouri Highway

A truck carrying 12,000 bottles of Templeton rye whiskey overturned on a Missouri highway last week. No one was injured.

VINEPAIR



ADI’s Virtual Conference Delivers for America’s Distillers

Some 1,600 attendees and over 100 exhibitors helped make the 2020 ADI Virtual Conference & Vendor Expo a social distancing success last week.

DISTILLER



2020 Distillery of the Year — Spirit Works

ADI has announced California-based Spirit Works Distillery as the 2020 Distillery of the Year and honored founders Ashby and Timo with the ADI Bubble Cap Award.

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Henric Molin

Henric Molin a chemist by education and flavourist by heart. Often described as a “perfectionist geek”, in a good way of course. This is of course also his biggest strength, always obsessed with getting the exact wanted results, best raw materials – picked by himself if possible, best yields and casks that have been made of wood grown in the right places down to the coordinates.

Henric was born into the hospitality industry the first pioneering work was done within the wine segment late 80’s. In 1998 Henric and his wife Anja founded Backafallsbyn on the island of Hven located in the strait of Oresund between Denmark and Sweden. That eventually gave birth to Spirit of Hven a company that not only distills its own organic products but also holds its own laboratory.

In the laboratory Henric does not just improve his own products he also consults the spirits industry globally, creates recipes for others and has dedicated the last 20 years to the science of creating scent and taste components for foodstuffs and foremost beverages.

Main work area the last 10 years have focused on creation, production and valuation of spirits. This incorporates developing new recipes and concepts that align trends with viable USP’s and feasible production models. Among the clients are found some of the highest valuated and appraised brands in the world.

Scott Allen

Scott Allen is Managing Director at Allen Associates (HPE) Ltd, a market leading chemical and process engineering design consultancy based in Stirling.

A Chemical and Process Engineering graduate of the University of Strathclyde, Scott started his career with a global engineering firm and then a leading food ingredients company before joining Allen Associates in 2001. He took on the role of MD in 2006.

During his time at the company Scott has built the business into the largest Scottish based chemical and process engineering design consultancy serving the distilled spirits industry. The company predominantly works in the Scotch whisky industry but also works with other distilled spirits including gin, rum and vodka, both in the UK and internationally, and clients range from small craft distillers to multi-national corporations.

In 2015 Scott was awarded a Fellowship of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and in 2017 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde’s Department of Chemical & Process Engineering.