ADI Conference Report

For whiskey and mooshine lovers, the following report should be quite exciting. Many of these winning brands are just or unreleased. So, A bunch of 'coming soon' selctions here. The picture attatched was the right-hand of the bar, btw...

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http://www.bourbonblog.com/blog/2010/05 ... onference/

Sounds fun, but the Gold Medal winner in the bourbon category is distilled in. . .Milwaukee?

Gold – Great Lakes Distillery, Test Batch

Sounds fun, but the Gold Medal winner in the bourbon category is distilled in. . .Milwaukee?

Gold – Great Lakes Distillery, Test Batch

Hehe..seems strange but when you think about it, it kinda makes sense. Bourbons were the least represented of the whisky styles. Those were 3-3.5 year bottlings that have some time before they were ready. Kentucky's main craft distiller here was Corsair and they simply cleaned house with thier creativity. You're only looking at the winners- best of the best, for sure. Yet most of these houses focus on 1-2 bottlings. This is thier premier bottling. Corsair killed it with a rye shine, an oatmeal stout whisky and three others I don't have in front of me.

The bourbon houses rule here to the point where nobody wants to take on thier market strength. Would you, as a craft distiller? Or would you simply find your own niche? I'm sure we both agree that we would chose the latter, hehe.