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Casks and Craft: Exploring Barrel Size for Whiskey Maturation

While smaller vessels can speed up certain types of aging reactions, the results are uneven among different aspects of maturation. Let’s look closer at what’s happening inside those barrels.

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Found Flavor: How and Why to Forage for Your Spirits

Spirits that feature foraged ingredients offer unique flavors while appealing to locally minded drinkers.

Delta Dirt Is Creating Change—and Award-Winning Spirits

This Arkansas farm distillery infuses its award-winning spirits with a family history and hometown heroism, earning it a national spotlight.

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Boosting the Retail Sales of Spirits with Kits and Gifts

Cocktail kits, premixes, premium RTDs, and gift boxes can help provide an extra revenue stream for independent distilleries.

S&D Podcast 20: Sherrie Moore Uses Data and Experimentation to Understand and Optimize Whiskey Flavor and Consistency

Over her 30+ years at Jack Daniel’s, Sherrie Moore served in a variety of roles, from working in the visitor’s center in the mid-70s through stints as chemist, processing manager, warehousing manager, and more before retiring as director of whiskey production. Now, she works with spirits brands in a consulting capacity, sharing the knowledge she built over decades of bust-and-boom producing whiskey for one of the world’s largest brands.

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How to Proof with Precision

Properly gauging ethanol in a distilled spirit is essential to ensuring proper reporting and avoiding heavy fines from the TTB.

Warming up with Warming Hut

Nate Randall, founder and distiller at California’s Hinterhaus, describes the happy accident and lessons learned in crafting ACSA’s reigning Innovation Award winner.

Batched Cocktails for Holiday Get-Togethers

It’s holiday party season, but do you really want to be stuck behind that bar? Few things are as festive as a large bottle or pitcher of your chosen cocktail, ready to pour. Here are tips and recipes for preparing that cheer and making it memorable.

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Demystifying Distillation Cuts

The way a distiller makes cuts will help to define the flavor and aroma of their spirit—but it doesn’t have to be complicated.

CS&D Podcast 19: A Global Perspective on Gin with Olivier Ward of Everglow Spirits

The world of gin, from the creative and technical side to marketing and sales, is experiencing the same flux that’s affecting the broader craft-spirits world. But Ward—veteran spirits journalist, brand builder, and consultant—offers a broad look at the category, from evolving definitions and flavors to breakthrough marketing.