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  Corsair’s third distillery is now open for tours, tastings, and gifts in Nashville’s most exciting makerhood: Wedgewood Houston. For more information visit Corsair’s Announcement

Posted on December 18, 2015 – By Maggie Kimberl It’s common knowledge at this point that Louisville, Kentucky, is the center of the bourbon universe. The city is at the heart of Kentucky’s most famous industry, and everything you need to make bourbon can be produced within the city limits. One such business at the heart of the…

…Now we return to Leopold Brothers and Todd Leopold, who has — along with the folks at Louisville’s Vendome Copper and Brass — designed and built a production scale chamber still. It is copper, not wood, stands about 20 feet high, and has four chambers. Innovation like this, by the way, is what it means to…

  WhiskyCast Episode 562: November 14, 2015 –  Start at the 20 minute mark to hear about Boone County Distilling Co.  

At Tamworth Distilling & Mercantile, which opened earlier this year on the grounds of a dilapidated New Hampshire inn, high-proof grain alcohol embodies the anachronistic, utilitarian charm of something you might have once found at a general store — or today, at the Vermont Country Store. According to its label — printed with, according to…

The Minnesota craft-distilling scene is looking to find its place in the geography of whiskey. With a handful of distilleries now past that two-year mark, it’s nearing the time for many to make the jump from barrel to bottle and start bringing aged spirits to market. Read the Full Article at GrowlerMag.com to see upcoming releases from…

Why you should be drinking more American brandy. by Osayi Endolyn, October 5, 2015 …As for Copper & Kings, the Herons opted to build their Butchertown distillery in the heart of bourbon country, where necessities were already in place—fourth generation Kentucky distiller and degree-holding expert in horticulture and viticulture Brandon O’Daniel; legendary copper pot still manufacturer Vendome (that…

October 19, 2015 by Lindsey McClave …Purchased in 1889 by Henry Kraver, Carson’s great-great-grandfather, Peerless Distilling was originally located in Henderson. Under Henry’s watch, Peerless grew to produce more than 10,000 barrels per year and would have likely continued to prosper if it weren’t for the war abroad and the war against liquor that befell…

The two entrepreneurs are childhood friends who grew up in the same remote section of Humboldt County, and they’re the proprietors of Wright & Brown Distilling, a new distillery that they say is the first one to open in Oakland in nearly a century. Even though their still was producing brandy — a relatively low-risk…

Durham’s new craft distilleries should get a lift from shifting state liquor laws Peer through the window of a former auto mechanic’s shop on Washington Street near downtown Durham, and you may be surprised by what you see. A large, gleaming, customized copper still dominates the room. Beside it sits a smaller glass contraption called…

Illinois’s first farm distillery controls production from seed to spirit Just off Keslinger Road in DeKalb, Illinois, is a tiny stone and timber building constructed from the remains of a turn-of-the-century dairy barn that once stood nearby. In the 1960s, the cows gone, it functioned as a picnic shelter and sleeping porch for the men…