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Casey Jones Distillery Celebrates Impending Solar Eclipse with Moonshine
Casey Jones Distillery (Hopkinsville, Ky.) is preparing for the Aug. 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse by bottling Casey’s Cut Total Eclipse Moonshine, what it calls the “Official Drink of the 2017 Solar Eclipse.” Read the rest of this entry
Northwest Cider Association announces winners in awards competition
A bit of news from the Northwest Cider Association…
Eight Northwestern cideries took home gold medals at the Awards Party for the Northwest Cider Association’s 5th Annual Portland International Cider Cup (PICC) last night. For the second year running, a cidery from Montana, Western Cider Company, took home the competition’s highest honor and Cup– the Best In Show Award.
The party, hosted at Portland Cider Company’s Clackamas event space, drew 150 cidermakers and cider fans, celebrated ciders crafted in the Pacific Northwest, the largest cider market in the US for consumption and home to quarter of the country’s cidermakers. The competition, which was hosted at Square Mile Cider on April 9, increased by 150% this year, growing to over 150 ciders from over 40 cideries in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, and featured 45 experienced industry judges.
Ind. bill reduces waiting time for craft distillers looking to open tasting room
Some good news out of Indiana, via Three Rivers Distilling Company…
A rendering of Three Rivers Distilling Co.’s new tasting room
Three Rivers Distilling Company will not have to wait three years to bring a craft spirits tasting room to the city of Fort Wayne.
Hemingway Rum Co. officially opens Key West distillery
Hemingway Rum Company, the makers of Papa’s Pilar premium sipping rums, which were inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s spirit of adventure, officially opened its Rum Distillery & Experience Center to the public on Saturday, May 20. The new facility pays homage to the legendary adventurer who once proudly called Key West home.
Garrison Brothers Distillery fills 10,000th bourbon whiskey barrel
On Monday Hye, Texas-based Garrison Brothers Distillery, part of the first wave of small distilleries outside of Kentucky to authentically hand-produce straight bourbon whiskey, filled its 10,000th bourbon barrel.
