"It's a windfall for every single distiller," said Lance Winters, master distiller of St. George Spirits.
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" Wild Turkey Master Distiller Jimmy Russell Wild Turkey Master Distiller Eddie Russell But rye's growing popularity hasn't touched at least one member of the Wild Turkey family: "Jimmy, how much rye you ever drink?
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Glenlivet traces its history to a distiller named George Smith, who made whisky illegally in the valley of the River Livet in Scotland until 1824, when he became the first legal distiller in his parish.
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Her father, Samuel Bronfman, built Seagram into the world's biggest distiller.
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"It's basically refrigeration technology," said Harlen Wheatley, Buffalo Trace's master distiller.
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Among them was Jim Rutledge, the master distiller at Four Roses.
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"Basically Lindsay Lohan is why we're here," said head distiller Seth O'Malley.
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Vienna. There he finishes his studies, starts his own business as a distiller
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Narrator: That's Bridget Firtle, the founder and head distiller at The Noble Experiment.
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Indeed, when Todd Leopold, head distiller of the Denver spirits company Leopold Bros.
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To a pro like Zykan, every major distiller has its own unique calling card.
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Suntory, a prominent whiskey distiller in Japan, is releasing a rare single malt whiskey.
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Add that to Brasert's ongoing list of identities: gym owner, sponsor, promoter, distiller, politician.
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Master tequilier Tania Oseguera explained that the brand's master distiller swears by the technique.
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"It's like a big family here," Cazadores' master distiller Jesus Susunaga said of Arandas.
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Rhine Hall is a fruit brandy distiller in the Fulton Market district of Chicago.
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But Boardroom Spirits, a craft distiller in Lansdale, Pa., also distills its from vegetables.
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"Years ago, we probably underestimated the market," said Jeff Arnett, master distiller at Jack Daniel's.
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"It's lots of fun," Archie Rose master distiller Dave Withers said in a press statement.
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"Gin is designed to work in many different directions," Desmond Payne, Beefeater's master distiller, said.
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Now the distiller aims to spread the word about quality absinthe and dispel the myths.
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In Taisuke, the Japanese found a stylistic vanguard, the rare alchemy of distiller and originator.
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Not an ordinary thing for a distiller to keep in-house, but these weren't ordinary times.
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Aviation American Gin was first produced in Portland by bartender Ryan Magarian and distiller Christian Krogstad.
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The team found a distiller in Jalisco, Mexico, and explained exactly what they were looking for.
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A distiller that makes 100,000 gallons would have its tax bill lowered by nearly $1.1 million.
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Plymouth Gin's master distiller Sean Harrison told us there's no such thing as a vodka martini.
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Charles Martell, a distiller and former lorry driver, creates the stuff in a village outside Gloucester.
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We have Finland's first female whisky distiller, [and] six or seven locals working there every day.
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Another non-Kentucky distiller, Oregon Spirit Distillers' bourbon caught Eaves' eye for their unique distilling style.
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His inspiration was George Washington, a distiller of rye who also had a penchant for applejack.
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Distiller Diageo said the outbreak could cost it as much as 325 million pounds in sales.
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Front Burner The Chicago restaurant teamed up with the distiller Rhine Hall for this sippable tipple.
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"It's lots of fun," Dave Withers, a master distiller for Archie Rose, said in a statement.
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His family made its fortune from Seagram's, once the largest distiller of alcoholic beverages in the world.
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Here, she sets up her portable steam distiller and manual hand press to experiment with her bounty.
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A much different story is being told in California by a geophysicist-turned-distiller named Daniel Farber.
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But she's a small-batch distiller, working to introduce New York rum to an already well-established category.
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"There's a new brand fatigue," said Colin Spoelman, co-founder of Kings County Distillery and a master distiller.
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The demand for a no-waste lifestyle has led a distiller, Jack Rabbit Hill Farm in Hotchkiss, Colo.
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He prefers "distiller": someone who boils away everything extraneous to render the essence of the story he's telling.
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Tony Guilfoy, the head distiller and co-owner, gives guests a brief history lesson, followed by a sampling.
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"Skies Turn Gold" is off The Ramona Flowers' forthcoming album Part Time Spies, out September 9th on Distiller Records.
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But by night, you can find Kosta in the back shed, where he moonlights as his neighborhood's rakija distiller.
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Distiller Jim Beam has added several new rye whiskey brands recently, including a 100 percent Canadian Club rye whiskey.
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Its spirits business faces stiff competition from Pernod Ricard, which imports Jameson whiskey, and from domestic distiller Africa Spirits.
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This year it purchased Cutwater Spirits, a San Diego distiller that makes 14 different ready-to-drink canned cocktails.
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Don Lupe Perez, the distiller at Mezcales de Leyenda, has released a limited edition of just such a mezcal.
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One Pennsylvanian distiller decided to use his production line to make a hand sanitizer instead of high-proof alcohol.
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I later met Adam Hannett, the youthful, soft-spoken head distiller, who told me that Budgie started in 1989.
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Production of Sagamore Spirit Rye began in Indiana in 2012, under a longtime master distiller from Seagrams, Larry Ebersold.
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In Israel, any kosher food producer, winemaker, brewer or distiller is subject to intense supervision by the state rabbinate.
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Craft distiller Tom Potter, president of the New York Distilling Company, said that the damage is not only monetary.
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"Vodka is delicate enough to let the rosé notes really shine," explains Hangar 1's head distiller Caley Shoemaker.
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In 2016, Italian distiller Davide Campari-Milano SpA acquired Grand Marnier's parent company, thus taking ownership of Villa Les Cèdres.
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Another favorite is the locally-made Dorothy Parker from NY Distilling by Allen Katz, the owner and master distiller there.
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The fighters watched us leave, and the distiller-mayor gave us a final wai before turning to light another cigarette.
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We spent years building a vapor compression distiller a small portable device that could make clean water out of anything.
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The pair teamed up with master distiller Arturo Fuentes and the Stoli Group to bring Villa One Tequila to life.
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A heron wades through the pond in front of the small distillery where I meet Matt Clark, the associate distiller.
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ISLAY, Scotland — Britain's planned departure from the European Union has turned distiller Anthony Wills's workdays into a marathon of logistics.
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Starting out as novice gin makers, the Ansleys enlisted the expertise of distiller Roger Jorgensen to show them the ropes.
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"We're living the dream," said Chris Morris, master distiller at Brown-Forman, producer of Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve and Old Forester.
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"When we talked to hairy hipster cocktail bartenders with tattoos, they wanted to feel the pain of the distiller," Green said.
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Washington is also pushing for China to remove tariffs on ethanol and distiller dried grains, a by-product of ethanol production.
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"My thinking was, for want of a better phrase, the marketing of its time," says John Georges, Angostura rum's master distiller.
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Chinese consumption has gone "beyond the point of no return", says Takeshi Niinami, the boss of Suntory, a giant Japanese distiller.
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On his second day in Hanoi, the English expat met Markus Madeja, the future cofounder and master distiller of Sơn Tinh.
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At 32, Marianne Eaves is Kentucky's first female bourbon Master Distiller, the title used for experts in alcohol creation, since Prohibition.
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It was Denver, not Washington D.C. The article also misspelled the surname of the master distiller at Westland Distillery in Seattle.
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And in 2017, a twentysomething vegan named Marianne Barnes became the state's first female master distiller since at least before prohibition.
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In an effort led by head distiller Caley Shoemaker, Hangar One partnered with the organization to harvest fog for craft vodka making.
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A few days after his baijiu remark, the distiller announced that it would sell a new blend at 30 yuan a bottle.
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First produced in the mid-1800s by a Spanish distiller in the small town of Ojen, it developed a rather cultured reputation.
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In Kentucky, there's a distiller who fermented brandy with subwoofers pumping David Bowie hits; an Austrian winemaker did the same with classical music.
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As surprise guests, he brought out his mom Kay and Wild Turkey master distiller Eddie Russell, who was his partner in creating Longbranch.
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Desert Door claims the distinction of being the only U.S. distiller of sotol, a plant-based liquor that's popular south of the border.
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He's the seventh-generation master distiller of the Beam brand, and started learning the family business when he was about five years old.
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Nobody would blink an eye if a master distiller, waiting for his own product to mature, sold a curated mixture of second-hand products.
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Distiller Kweichow Moutai Co gained 295.500 percent on Friday after a string of volatile sessions that left it down 23.75 percent for the week.
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While utilizing their shared strengths and skills in the beginning, Carusone and Gardner quickly recognized what they didn't know and hired a master distiller.
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British distiller Diageo is dodging consumer confidence headwinds by taking advantage of trends in alcohol and drinking preferences, CEO Ivan Menezes told CNBC on Thursday.
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The $166 billion distiller addressed concerns about why its state-backed parent created a unit that can potentially funnel business away from the listed outfit.
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He's been made a Kentucky Colonel three times and with 6003 years of distilling practice, is the longest-tenured active master distiller in the world.
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Recently, Suntory — the Japanese distiller that has been in business near Kyoto since 1899 — started shipping its newest gin and vodka to the United States.
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"This is not an economic lifeline for distilleries," said Brad Plummer, a spokesman for the American Distilling Institute and editor in chief of Distiller Magazine.
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Over the last 20 years or so, Suntory and Nikka, Japan's other large distiller, had begun producing award-winning single malts that connoisseurs now covet.
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Another favorite is Dorothy Parker from NY Distilling Co., which is made locally in Greenpoint, Brooklyn by Allen Katz, the owner and master distiller there.
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An aspiring Tasmanian distiller challenged the federal statute in 1989, paving the way for a boom first in craft Tasmanian whiskies, and more recently, gins.
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"Jack Daniel's has no better friends than the men and women of our nation's military and our veterans," Jack Daniel's Master Distiller Jeff Arnett told CNBC.
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The warehouse was a spectacle of hundreds of casks, each labeled with a storage date and the name of the distiller, lined up in long aisles.
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"Given the option of petroleum byproduct and smushed-up bugs, the bugs won out," said Lance Winters, master distiller at St. George Spirits in Alameda, Calif.
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Jürgen Klotz, whose family owns and runs the German distillery, said that the name was a pun on Berglen, the town where the distiller is based.
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A whisky distiller in Scotland spent months ensuring that Brexit wouldn't keep him from exporting his single malt to the U.S. in time for the holidays.
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Legendary heavy-metal band Metallica is teaming up with Dave Pickerell, former master distiller at Maker's Mark, on a whiskey line — and possibly a small distillery.
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The barrels had been sanded and spray-painted black on the tops and bottoms in what authorities believed was an effort to remove the distiller&aposs marks.
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McConaughey surprised Russell's mom — who is married to Jimmy Russell, Wild Turkey's Master Distiller — and she looked overjoyed to see the handsome Oscar-winner on her doorstep.
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His whiskey Obi-Wan, if you will, was Kentucky master distiller Jim Rutledge, of Four Roses Distillery, who instructed him in the ancient art of Kentucky whiskey.
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"We ask people to taste them side by side," said Francesco Amodeo, president and master distiller of Don Ciccio & Figli, which makes three aperitivos, including Luna Amara.
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Pedro Hernández, El Silencio's distiller, explained that he waits until the coals are smoldering before he adds the agave, to prevent the mezcal from getting too smoky.
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It is the second biggest acquisition by a Japanese brewer on record, behind brewer and distiller Suntory Holdings Ltd's near $14 billion purchase of Beam in January 2014.
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It's "the mood of the forest," evoking both the beaver and its woodland home, according to Matt Power, a master distiller at Tamworth who helped develop the beverage.
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They also serve a whiskey, made in Tennessee, called Uncle Nearest; Nathan (Nearest) Green was a black master distiller believed to have taught Jack Daniel everything he knew.
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Business Insider spoke to Sean Harrison, Plymouth Gin's current master distiller who reinvented the old recipe, about the biggest mistakes people make when ordering, serving, and drinking gin.
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To test the quality of the water that comes out, the researchers fed salt water and water containing heavy metals like lead, copper, and magnesium into the distiller.
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"If your goal is to just make bitters, don't quit your day job," said Lance Winters, the master distiller of St. George, which makes the aperitivo Bruto Americano.
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Timberlake, for example, worked with the Tequilera Newton distillery in Jalisco; Clooney, after an arduous two-year search, worked with an unnamed "master distiller" in the same state.
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It's like being two things at once when you're making malt whiskey–you need to be a very talented brewer, and you still need to be a great distiller.
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Distiller Kweichow Moutai Co gained 26.8848 percent on Friday after a string of volatile sessions and a weak earnings report that left it down 26.9083 percent for the week.
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"The combination of black trumpet mushrooms and blueberries may seem odd to some, but both those ingredients grow wild in the land around the distillery," says distiller Jamie Oakes.
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To get a better understanding of the process behind this one-of-a-kind vodka, I sat down with Hawaiian Sea Spirits' master distiller, Bill Scott, to talk shop.
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Like a master distiller told of a single malt being mixed with Coca-Cola, he winces at the thought of drinkers squeezing their tea bag after merely a few seconds.
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But instead of sending that heat back into the atmosphere, the device directs it to the distiller, which uses the heat as an energy source to power the desalination process.
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Hangar 1, the vodka distiller, is in a repurposed airplane hangar on Alameda Island in San Francisco Bay, where Navy planes, including one called the Bent-Wing Bird, were housed.
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NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Christopher Williams, intense, wild-eyed and with a face bracketed by a shaggy goatee and wire-rimmed glasses, looks more like a revolutionary than a whiskey distiller.
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After a day working on articles about fiscal and foreign policy, I can dash off to a whiskey tasting or go meet a distiller to talk about her latest products.
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Liam Hughes, chief executive of a small distiller in Glasgow, said his company had just sealed a deal to sell whisky to the United States when the tariffs were announced.
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Graciela Ángeles, the rigorously traditional fourth-generation distiller behind a successful label called Real Minero, told me that her great-grandmother sold bootleg mezcal from the back of a burro.
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" He added: "But up until two years ago when we opened WhiskyInvestDirect, you've never really been able to take advantage of that unless you were a whisky distiller or blender.
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Mr. Munroe, the head distiller, visited with South African tourists, while Jordan Osborne, the head brewer, tended to the mash in a production space decorated with a giant Texas flag.
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When Russell began, the company was steered by Bill Hughes — only the second Master Distiller in Wild Turkey's history — and Ernest Ripy, whose father created the distillery's first batch of bourbon.
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"Sipsmith is a real celebration of where the old meets the new, with the spirit of London's gin heritage at its core," Sipsmith master distiller Jared Brown said in a statement.
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I'm not sure if one's actually out there, but that doesn't stop me from checking with every bartender, master distiller, agave farmer, and civilian imbiber I meet, from Oaxaca to Finland.
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Colin Spoelman is Master Distiller at Kings County Distillery, the oldest distillery in New York City since Prohibition, and an expert on the history of spirits—both the liquid and spectral.
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But she is also wary of people who assume that just because she is black, and her whiskey celebrates a black distiller, she is making a product exclusively for black consumers.
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Ms. Weaver's biggest success, however, came in May, when Brown-Forman officially recognized Green as its first master distiller, nearly a year after the company vowed to start sharing Green's legacy.
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David Robertson, who was a master distiller at Macallan from the mid-'90s through the mid-2000s, is among the few who've tried it, and in his estimation, McGlone is correct.
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Mashable reports that the Sydney-based distiller is about to release a limited-edition spirit that it says has the flavor of buttered toast and yeast extracts like Vegemite or Marmite.
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Other malts worth noting were the gentle, inviting Amrut from India, the clean and balanced Kavalan from Taiwan, and the Reisetbauer from the Austrian distiller better known for beautiful eau de vies.
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Moutai added that its parent company would respect the "promise" it made when the distiller went public in 2001, and repeated a familiar pledge not to harm the interests of minority shareholders.
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Sydney-based gin distiller Archie Rose has created what they've called a "hot buttered toast spirit" that channels the flavour of Vegemite-like spreads on toast — an oft-consumed breakfast of Australians.
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Diageo, the maker of Johnny Walker, is betting that a temporary gender reassignment on its label will help cultivate female drinkers, who tend to be "intimidated" by scotch, according to the distiller.
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Still, the Scotch Whisky Association has been vigilant in trying to protect its brand and reputation, and so took the maker of Glen Buchenbach, a small German distiller called Waldhornbrennerei, to court.
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Last year Luzhou Laojiao, a storied distiller in Sichuan, a south-western province, released a baijiu in America named Ming River (it is a joint venture in which Mr Sandhaus holds a share).
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Several other cash-rich Philippine firms, such as Universal Robina, a food manufacturer, and Emperador, a distiller, are now spreading their wings across South-East Asia, says Hazel Tañedo of CLSA, another broker.
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So strong is the affinity between liquor and perfume that I once met a whiskey distiller who spoke of her choice, after completing a chemistry degree, between those two fields for her career.
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Created in partnership with master distiller Jim McEwan—arguably the most famous maker of Scotch on earth—they offer a perfect home from which your wee drams may whisper their oak-aged secrets.
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"I see this as a classic American way of engaging with flavors," says Portland, OR, distiller Seth O'Malley of Townshend's, who incorporates Indian black tea, cardamom, and black pepper into herbaceous Italian amaro.
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Yet for all its notoriety, according to Jake Burger, master distiller at Portobello Gin in West London, it's also a cocktail that's unlikely to have been served correctly in the last 30 years.
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Award-winning bartender Josephine Sondlo and sensory researcher Johan Swahn worked together with Irish whiskey distiller Tullamore D.E.W. to blend a drink intended to put dated ideas about who drinks what to rest.
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One of the few to take a different approach is Uncle Nearest, founded in 2016 by Fawn Weaver and named for Nearest Green, the former slave who became Jack Daniel's first master distiller.
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Brad Plummer, spokesman for the American Distilling Institute and editor of Distiller Magazine, said he's been seeing a lot of talk among distillers interested in converting part of their operations to hand sanitizer.
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Today the state has more than 100 distilleries — which is good news for craft spirits fans and the farmers who supply ingredients, but worrisome for a distiller looking at all that undifferentiated competition.
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John Campbell, the distiller, used Madeira casks for the 2016 edition, giving the typically smoky Scotch hints of spice, orange and hazelnuts: Laphroaig Cairdeas 2016 Madeira Cask, $74.98, on sale for $59.99, internetwines.
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Formed by his grandfather in 20143, with roots in a Pernod distiller set up in 1805, it is the world's second-largest seller of wine and spirits, with a market capitalisation of €32bn ($37bn).
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Bacardi, a former Cuban distiller now based in Bermuda, left Cuba after the 1959 revolution and subsequently acquired the rights to the Havana Club trademark from its pre-revolutionary owner whose distillery was nationalized.
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BRF's Chief Financial Officer Elcio Ito said the company has started to add DDGs (dried distiller grain), the byproduct from corn-based ethanol, which is rich in protein, as an alternative ingredient for feed.
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Clayton Christopher, who sold his Sweet Leaf Tea to Nestlé and then last year sold Deep Eddy Vodka for almost $400 million to a Kentucky distiller, is among the founders of CAVU Venture Partners.
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Fleischmann, the son of a distiller and yeast maker, was disappointed by American bread and the yeast used to make it, so he went to Austria to grab a sample of better-quality yeast.
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Dave Pickerell, a master distiller who played a central role in the growth of Maker's Mark bourbon and later used his expertise to help entrepreneurs start dozens of small craft distilleries, died on Nov.
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Some things are lost, to be sure, but it turns out that Ms. Swift is as effective a distiller of everyone else's pop ideas as she was at charting her own sui generis path.
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When owner, CEO, and master distiller Anthony Chase started the company in 2014, he wanted it to be as American as it could possibly be, so he enrolled in the Made in America Certification program.
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Kentucky bourbon distilled by Fred Noe, a seventh-generation master distiller at Jim Beam, includes some bourbon aged in wine and sherry casks, a technique more typical of the Scottish Highlands than of Bluegrass Country.
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They're here for Stranahan's Snowflake, a rare expression created by master distiller Rob Dietrich—also known as Whiskey Rob—released just once a year that must be picked up in-person from the Denver distillery.
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Matt Hoffman, the master distiller at Westland, in Seattle, goes even further, using not just local barley but a local species of oak, Quercus garryana, to make the barrels for aging his single malt whiskey.
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One evangelist, who travels back and forth from Mexico with a suitcase full of esoteric mezcals, told me that his favorite distiller works in a village three hours on a bad road from Oaxaca City.
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So until gin distiller Archie Rose manages to bottle and sell an impossibly fit woman who yells at you to "sweat with swagger," then you'll probably hear people's thoughts about their Vegemite-inspired booze, too.
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Distiller Kweichow Moutai, the country's most famous producer of fiery liquor baijiu, fuelled the broader consumer slump, falling by the daily limit of 10 percent after it reported sharply slower profit growth in the third quarter.
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Instead of transporting the yield back to the island of Tasmania, they opted for Poor Tom's distillery closer to Sydney, where Bignell oversaw distillation alongside Poor Tom's distiller Jesse Kennedy and Rootstock organizer Giorgio De Maria.
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One would not, for instance, blame "the Farmer who sows Barley,—the Brewer who makes it into Beverage,—the Merchant who imports Rum, or the Distiller who makes spirits" for all the unhappiness associated with alcoholism.
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But the company's share price has fallen by a third since then as the distiller lost market share in Poland - its largest operation - due to increased competition, weak demand and the devaluation of the Polish currency.
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"The key decision that the company had was to respect the process of Francisc Alcaraz, the master distiller, and just take the time to just replicate the same small distillery in which we started," explained Rodriguez.
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LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A German distiller selling a whisky called "Glen Buchenbach" may be infringing Scotland's rights on its national drink even though he makes clear he produces it in Germany, the EU's top court ruled on Thursday.
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"We have to be licensed in virtually every state in the union independently of the others," says Daric Schlesselman, the Craft Distiller of Van Brunt Stillhouse, a Brooklyn-based artisanal distillery in Brooklyn producing rum whiskey and grappa.
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Chrome has an experimental tool called DOM Distiller that offers the same stripped-down look and third-party browser extensions like Readability and other accessibility add-ons from the Chrome Store can also simplify pages for better browsing.
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The official version of the inception of the recipe of the iconic Jack Daniel's whiskey is that Daniel was working for a preacher, grocer and distiller named Dan Call, who taught him how to run his whiskey still.
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The owners—artist Guillermo Olguin, master distiller Eric Hernández, as well as Ignacio Carballido and Gerardo Rejón—wanted to create a place to showcase their mezcal and educate tourists, both Mexican and international, about the spirit in general.
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"We went from a marginally profitable business to breaking even," Mountain Laurel's owner and chemical engineer-turned-distiller, Herman Mihalich, said while testing his latest batch of rye whiskey in the sleepy hamlet of Bristol in southeast Pennsylvania.
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But it was not until the mid-19th century that Facundo Bacardi, a distiller in Santiago, perfected what is now regarded as the Cuban style: refined, even delicate, with none of the heavy, funky flavors of its predecessors.
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Lambert famously persuaded her father, Samuel Bronfman, head of the Seagram distiller, to commission Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to build the towering Seagram headquarters in New York in the 1950s, which became an important symbol of modernism.
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"When I tasted it, the whisky was quite intense, dry, and tasted of dried fruit with some hint of warming spice," said David Robertson, a master distiller at the Macallan from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.
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"Almost every month now, you hear of a new gin" in Tasmania, said Louise Radman, a self-taught gin distiller, who along with her husband, Nav Singh, started their own label, Sud Polaire, in Hobart two years ago.
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I went out with a whiskey distiller, a few investment bankers, a bunch of comedians, a carpenter who hung all of the shelves in my apartment, a tugboat captain (seriously), and spent an entire summer dating Australian men exclusively.
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" After months of back-and-forth with the distiller, and tasting and developing their tequila, the duo found the perfect product, Gerber recalls: "George opened the sample, poured one for me, poured one for him, and we tasted it.
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Basically, years after the original line of Trump Vodka was killed dead, a distiller in the Holy Land named H. Pixel International was still producing the spirit based on a previously established deal with the initial partner, Drinks Americas.
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" At dinner parties, he wrote, "I much prefer the company of an expert pig breeder or hungry whiskey distiller to that of a fatuous foodie waxing ecstatically about Peruvian peppers or some young hot-shot chef's latest fusion concoctions.
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Gable Erenzo, a former distiller at Tuthilltown Spirits in the Catskill Mountains of New York, recently opened Gardiner Liquid Mercantile, where he makes fruit brandy using ambient yeast — whatever happens to be floating in the air around his distillery.
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CARACAS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Rum distiller Ron Santa Teresa has launched Venezuela's first public share offering in 11 years, citing rare optimism that the socialist-ruled nation may see an economic transition similar to China and the Soviet Union.
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As Kosta is a known rakija distiller, friends and family bring their own komina to Kosta, which he then puts inside his copper vats, sealing the top with none other than pasta, forming into a circular breadstick around the entire kazia.
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With an annual production of less than 0003,000 bottles of gin, Monkey 47 is a craft distiller when compared to the 2.6 million cases of nine bottles of Beefeater gin that Pernod Ricard sold worldwide in fiscal year 2014/15.
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The Dalmore L'Anima is a single malt created from three unique assemblages (blended by The Dalmore master distiller Richard Paterson) using some of the distillery's rarest casks that previously held 40 year old Pedro Ximenez sherry and Graham's Vintage Port Pipes.
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The initial whey-alcohol tip came directly from master distiller Charles Maxwell, during a visit Green and childhood friend/gin co-founder Antony Jackson undertook to the Thames distillery in London, whose family have been distilling gin since the 1680s.
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Distiller Raña Zorrilla, who joined the team just three years ago fresh out of college, taps into his food chemistry education to oversee quality, tasting new distillates as they come in to ensure that every bottle tastes like the next.
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"When I started, you couldn't run your hand over the barrels or else you'd get splinters," said David Pickerell, a whiskey industry consultant and former master distiller at Maker's Mark who has worked with two generations of Boswells at Independent Stave.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Beam Suntory, the world's third-largest spirits company known for Jim Beam and Maker's Mark bourbons, is to buy a controlling stake in London gin distiller Sipsmith, aiming to cash in on rising demand for craft spirits and gin.
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Whether you're sipping out of a $2,500 cup or an $11 cup, to get the most bang for your buck, "you should have at least 22 sips before your julep runs dry," master distiller at Woodford Reserve, Chris Morris, tells Fortune.
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Campari Agrees to Acquire Grand Marnier | Campari-Milano, the Italian distiller, agreed to buy the French cognac maker Grand Marnier Group in a deal that values the family-owned company at $760 million, adding more high-end spirits to its portfolio.
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The two-, three-, and four-year-old bourbons blended to make Virginia Black aren't actually made in Virginia, but are from a distiller in Indiana called Midwest Grain Products, which also has ties to Bulleit, Templeton, and other popular brands.
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You get past the trips to the mountain top, the Saveur profiles, the gorgeous bottles, the boozehound's romantic daydreams of encountering that perfect gentleman distiller and him whispering to us the family schnapps recipe, and you have this: the hustle.
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Mr. Biondi poured three expressions of clairin, each bottle named for the distiller (Clairin Casimir or Clairin Vaval), listing the village, the variety of sugar cane (such as Hawaii or Madame Meuze) and noting that it's spontaneously fermented with wild yeast.
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The company had intended to recognize Green's role as master distiller last year as part of its 150th anniversary celebration, Mr. McCallum said, but decided to put off any changes amid the racially charged run-up to the 2016 election.
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The world's most profitable distiller has been pursuing a revamp of its distribution network since the arrest of its former chairman, and last month said it would open a new e-commerce firm this year after abruptly shutting the old one.
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Hosted by Lorena Vasquez, master distiller from Guatemala's preeminent rum producer, Ron Zacapa, and celebrated local chef Mario Enrique Campollo, the chefs are treated to an experience that is all about passion for provenance, slow food and, of course, rum.
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He also brought together a team of all-star locals helmed by director general and expat John Sean Fagan, Mexico City-born distiller José Pablo Raña Zorrilla, and civil engineer Martha Cardoso, a Oaxaca Mixe native who oversaw the construction of the distillery.
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Ichiro Akuto, grandson of Isouji Akuto — a 19th generation descendant of sake brewers and whiskey producers who founded the distillery in 1941 — preserved 4 premium whisky casks before the distiller shut down, and bottled each one for release between 2005 to 2014.
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The restaurant, which currently serves hard liquor only in the form of a Patrón or Sauza margarita, is working with sommelier and distiller Richard Betts to test out a newly expanded cocktail menu at a lone Colorado location, reports Denver alt-weekly Westword.
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In place of the familiar ethanol kick, though, High Rhode, the creation of a New York distiller called Kin, delivers licorice, gentian root and caffeine, along with Goop-ish additions like "nootropics" and "adaptogens" and a priceless mixture of sensuality and virtue.
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For Rich, this meant a new life sprung from the old, as a lesbian and groundbreaking feminist writer, as a distiller and popularizer of academic feminist theory, and as a poet who would exert a reshaping influence over other writers forever after.
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But while moonshine is still widely available in the US, with cops seizing hundreds of gallons whenever they try to make a bust on just one illicit distiller, refilling bottles and other means of passing it off as regulated liquor is exceptionally rare.
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There was the whiskey distiller who slept on an air mattress in a crawl space, the lawyer who picked me up on the subway, and the person who I was messaging on Bumble who wound up standing next to me in line at Whole Foods.
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"Rather than make a single whiskey or work with one master distiller, we thought it would be far more interesting to work with various master distillers and blenders to make whiskeys that would each have their own unique signature," Bushala said in a statement.
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To keep the stores filled and to make use of great but younger whisky, some distillers, like Macallan, Talisker and Oban, have in recent years started releasing distiller's editions—blends that meet the discerning palate of a master distiller but that don't carry age statements.
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For those who want something even closer to gin, Seedlip, an alcohol-free distiller located on a farm in North Lincolnshire, England, is offering Spice 94, a clear liquid blend that contains botanicals like Jamaican allspice berry, cardamom and citrus peel (although no juniper).
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Matt Hofmann, the master distiller at Westland, has been working with university agriculture departments to identify barley varietals that will flourish in the Northwestern climate; he has also used a regional variety of oak, the Garry or Oregon white oak, to make barrels for aging.
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In April, rival Diageo also unveiled a joint venture with Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., the third-largest distiller of China's dominant Baijiu spirit, to launch a new whisky brand called Zhong Shi Ji. Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Deepa Babington
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In April, rival Diageo also unveiled a joint venture with Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., the third-largest distiller of China's dominant Baijiu spirit, to launch a new whisky brand called Zhong Shi Ji. Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Deepa Babington
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In April, rival Diageo unveiled a joint venture with Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co, China's third-largest distiller of the country's dominant Baijiu spirit, to launch a new whisky brand called Zhong Shi Ji. ($1 = 0.8973 euros) (Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
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The smart decanter does seem to have some kind of built-in voice control if the video is to be believed, but instead of offering contextual responses, you're pretty much just going to get recordings of the voice of Fred Noe, a master distiller at Jim Beam.
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Kathryn studied Scottish history and has been offered work at a local distiller and Gregg is a health and safety expert who last week described his family as a perfect example of successful immigrants, the kind of immigrants the dwindling economy of Scotland's outlying areas needs.
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The 228-acre site, now owned by the city after closing in 2200, offers a mix of tenants akin to Kearny Point: a whiskey distiller, a glass engraver and a furniture maker, but also a cement company and even traditional dry docks, where tugboats are repaired.
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"When I was learning to distill, all I was taught was 'buy Yellow Dent, Number Two Grade,'" said Rob Arnold, the head distiller at the Firestone & Robertson Distilling Co. in Fort Worth, who is also pursuing a doctorate in plant breeding and genetics at Texas A&M.
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At one point Jack Daniel's proposed adding a Nearest Green bottle to its "Master Distiller" series, a limited-edition run of bottles that celebrate its former master distillers, but dropped the idea over concerns from inside and outside the company about appearing to cash in on Green's name.
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"There aren't a lot of companies out there that can do what they do in terms of capability and flexibility," said Harlen Wheatley, the master distiller at Buffalo Trace, a whiskey maker in Frankfort, Ky., that buys most of its barrels from Independent Stave and often collaborates with it on research projects.
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While the fog may be a nuisance to some, Hangar 1 head distiller Caley Shoemaker saw it as a treasure trove of usable water just waiting to be plucked from the sky, so she did a tremendous amount of research before linking up with Fog Quest to see if it could be pulled off.
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Read more: Why a master gin distiller always takes the garnish out of his drink before he sips itProfessor Jim Smith and a team of researchers from the UK and Ukraine grew rye crops within the exclusion zone where public access and inhabitation is restricted due to the dangerous levels of radiation still present.
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Scouring archives in Tennessee, Georgia and Washington, D.C., she created a timeline of Green's relationship with Daniel, showing how Green had not only taught the whiskey baron how to distill, but had also gone to work for him after the Civil War, becoming what Ms. Weaver believes is the first black master distiller in America.
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"You can't make a good quality tequila if you don't start with a really good agave," says Barry Augus, whose Tres Agaves tequila is made at a distillery at the foot of Tequila Volcano in Jalisco by master distiller Eduardo Orendein, a fifth-generation tequilero (and, for what it's worth, former mayor of Tequila the town).
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Mr. Riklis, who was born in Turkey and raised in Israel, was a brash financial alchemist and corporate raider who built empires out of office equipment companies, retailers like the McCrory-McLellan chain and the Lerner Shops, a variety of outfits like BVD, Playtex, Fabergé and the liquor distiller Schenley, and the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas.
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They also pointed out that the whiskey—a blend of two-, three- and four-year old bourbon whiskies, focused on a high-rye profile "finished with a decadent profile"—are sourced from Midwest Grain Products, a large distiller in Indiana that also produces the base for everything from Bulleit Rye and Templeton Rye to High West Rye and Redemption Rye.
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A total of 16 leading American distiller brands will be featured, ranging from Beam Suntory's Maker's Mark and Jim Beam to Brown-Forman's Jack Daniel's and Woodford Reserve brands, according to a release by the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. The U.S. craft spirits industry continues to grow, and reached 1,315 distilleries as of August 2015, according to the IWSR.
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Mr. Williams was up late drinking with a who's who of New York craft distilling — including Tom Potter, a founder of New York Distilling Company in Brooklyn; Nicole Austin, then a distiller at Kings County Distillery, also in Brooklyn; and Brian McKenzie, an owner of Finger Lakes Distilling in Burdett, N.Y. — when the conversation turned to their state's exploding whiskey scene.
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I'd finished college, and I was swiping around on dating apps and making out with a colorful cast of characters: a whiskey distiller who worked the midnight shift out of the old post office in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, an Australian bartender who never flushed the toilet when he peed, and the token older guy with a good job who would buy me expensive martinis.
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The guest list includes Jes Staley of Barclays, Bob Dudley of BP, Ben van Beurden of Shell, Helena Morrissey of Legal & General Investment Management, and Ivan Menezes, chief executive of Diageo, the distiller behind Johnnie Walker scotch, per FT. Be smart: Some of the guests have been weighing the pros and cons of dining with Trump given the recent trade tensions between the U.S. and its allies.
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On an overcast day, I walked the beach between sporadic downpours to the more than 400-year-old Callwood Rum Distillery where Matthew Callwood, a distiller, bartender, tour guide and member of the family that has owned the distillery since the 1800s, led me and two cruise passengers on a tour ($5) of the mostly outdoor distillery works, including a 19th-century sugar cane crusher originally powered by harnessed donkeys.
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But while whiskey distillers go to great length to stress the history, craft and originality of their product, what a great many aren't telling drinkers is that far from possessing local character, these bourbons and ryes are actually distilled in huge batches in Indiana at a place called MGP, an industrial distiller of spirits as well as a manufacturer of food industry ingredients such as wheat proteins and starches.
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Jennifer Steinhauer, editor of live journalism in our Washington bureau, will moderate a discussion with Rachel Gardner, co-founder and head distiller of Republic Restoratives, the first woman-owned distillery in the capital; Julie Verratti, the co-founder of Denizens Brewing Company and a champion of local tax reform for small-business brewers; and Garrett Peck, a historian and the author of "Prohibition in Washington, D.C." Mark the anniversary with quality conversation and whiskey and beer tasting, hosted by The New York Times.
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