Artisan-craze-helps-drive-boom-in-craft-booze

I read this article and couldn't help but to chuckle...could this new trend in "Craft Spirits" someday give birth to a "Roger" of the spirits world, endlessly screeching from atop the rafters; "Death to Buffalo Trace"...."Death to Jack Daniels"..."Death to Jim Beam".

Humorous musings aside, it is a pretty good article on the budding "Craft" spirits industry.


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A number of places are doing this in kentucky. The problem is that the big boys of the industry also live in this neighborhood. Also it takes at least 2 years to call it a bourbon and bourbon is still king in these woods. Also a reason many of the craft places buy the "juice" from one of the big boys and then rebrand it. Kentucky bourbon distillers did this but are now making their own. Barrel house in Lexington, a place in BG does it too. l

If home distilling is made legal, watch out for a boom in this business.

If home distilling is made legal, watch out for a boom in this business.

.....Legal or not "Home Distilling" has always been around. It's called "Bootlegging" and it's more common than you might think.

[Robin Garr]

If home distilling is made legal, watch out for a boom in this business.

.....Legal or not "Home Distilling" has always been around. It's called "Bootlegging" and it's more common than you might think.

Actually, in Kentucky (outside the Wattersion ), "Bootlegging" is the unlicensed SALE of alcohol, usually commercial product but occasionally home-brewed. Home distilling is "Moonshining."

If home distilling is made legal, watch out for a boom in this business.

.....Legal or not "Home Distilling" has always been around. It's called "Bootlegging" and it's more common than you might think.

Actually, in Kentucky (outside the Wattersion ), "Bootlegging" is the unlicensed SALE of alcohol, usually commercial product but occasionally home-brewed. Home distilling is "Moonshining."

You are of course correct...

We made some decent "hooch" with a kick when I was in college - who the hell knew it would some day be considered "artisan"?

I read this article and couldn't help but to chuckle...could this new trend in "Craft Spirits" someday give birth to a "Roger" of the spirits world, endlessly screeching from atop the rafters; "Death to Buffalo Trace"...."Death to Jack Daniels"..."Death to Jim Beam".

Yeah, it's true. I tend to stand for something principled. It's hard work, but someone's gotta do it here in the United States of WalMart.

Meanwhile, I attended the Craft Distillers conference here in Louisville (and at Huber's) in April, and I spoke with Bill Owens (a brewer before he began distilling), and so I appreciate his thoughts:

To Owens, the fact that it’s difficult to start a distillery and can take years to see a real payoff are among the industry’s attributes.

“You get rid of a whole bunch or class of people that are just into greed or money,” he said. “We’re into people who have a love of the craft.”