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29 Jun, 2016  by Jacqueline Rice Read Blog Post on Chicago Bourbon

By Chris Bahn Posted: June 22, 2016 at 5:45 a.m. Luke Klifman works Tuesday at a whiskey still at Rock Town Distillery. The distillery is hoping to move to a “big, flat lot” on Capitol Avenue, owner Phil Brandon said.  Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Jun 22, 2016, 12:25pm EDT Andy Brownfield New Riff Distillery features a 55-foot copper still tower. Read the entire article on The Cincinnati Courier  

Spirits rise in Guysborough By Lois Ann Dort … The new facility houses, in three connected buildings: a hospitality room, still house, brew hall, milling room, packaging hall and warehouse totalling over 22,000 square feet. The still house accommodates three copper stills made by Vendome Copper & Brassworks of Louisville, Kentucky and the new brew…

It is Kentucky Bourbon Affair week and Vendome hosted the Golden Ticket Holders at the opening event.  Read all about it on CheshireKatBlog.com  

By Distillery Trail Posted June 15, 2016 Distillery Trail stopped by for a visit this week.  Read all about it on Distillery Trail’s Blog. There is a lot of history and even some Q&A.  A photo tour will follow in a later post.

2016 Craft Extravaganza – Part I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016 AT 06:20PM … The Michter’s pot stills were original built in the 1970s as a semi-tourist attraction at the distillery in Schaefferstown, PA. This famous distillery was responsible for the original Michter’s Brand Sour Mash and several other exceptionally well regarded products like the A.H. Hirsch…

Posted: Jun 07, 2016 3:58 PM EDTUpdated: Jun 07, 2016 5:23 PM EDT By Katie George … LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Shelby County family is doing things differently as they open a new distillery. There hasn’t been a distillery in Shelby County since Prohibition. Now, Jeptha Creed will be the first locally-owned distillery in the…

South Salt Lake, UT (PRWEB) June 07, 2016 … Today bricks from the well-driller’s original home represent the Dented Brick Distillery brand and are a part of the distillery, creating the juxtaposition of history and technology, the history of craft spirit and the improved technological components of today’s distilleries. The hi-tech tools of the trade…

BY ANNE BROCKHOFF Special to The Star       … The interior of the vintage building that houses the distillery itself has been entirely rebuilt and its equipment replaced. Harris won’t say how much the updates cost, only that McCormick has invested $20 million in its overall business in 2015 and 2016. The new…

Lizzy Alfs, lalfs@tennessean.com9:43 p.m. CDT May 19, 2016 … Nashville Craft joins a growing number of craft distillers opening across Tennessee after new legislation loosened restrictions on where distillers can operate. There are now 30-plus distillers in a market once dominated by behemoths Jack Daniel’s and George Dickel. Growth in the industry comes as consumer…

By Distillery Trail The James E. Pepper Distillery or Jas. E. Pepper Distillery was one of the few distilleries in the country to survive Prohibition. Unfortunately, it didn’t survive the 50’s. The distillery that was founded in 1879 was mothballed in 1958 and for the most part the building and its contents has sat rotting…