Our next member highlight takes us to Thornton, Illinois where a time-honored local brewery building now houses a distillery that’s making history by distilling European heirloom grain grown in Indiana. We asked Thornton Distillery’s Head Distiller Ari Klafter about their origin story and about his passion for peated malt. Here’s what he had to say.…
[Member Webinar] American Single Malt: The Next Big Thing in Whiskey
Join Steve Hawley and Joe O’Sullivan from the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission to learn about how a group of distillers from across the country are banding together to establish, promote and protect an entirely new category of whiskey. During the seminar, we’ll discuss how the Commission crafted a formal definition for American Single Malt…
Distilling Research Grant Auction 2018 Launched
The American Distilling Institute is proud to announce a new initiative that will support craft distilling by funding scientific research. The newly formed non-profit Distilling Research Grant (DRG) will be funded from an online auction site filled with donations from world-class vendors. The funds will be dispersed to distillers and distilling industry researchers by an independent Advisory Committee composed…
Westland Distillery & Skagit Valley Malting Work to Create Locally-Harvested Peat Malt
By Tyler Pederson, Head Stillman, Westland Distillery Peated whiskey is a longstanding tradition in the whiskey-making of the Old World, but here in America, it’s a relatively new idea. Frankly, single malt whiskey in and of itself is a new concept in this country. When we started Westland—focused solely on the production of single malt—our…
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