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20 March, 2023

What is a Grist Hydrator?

What Is a Grist Hydrator? A grist hydrator is a very handy and easily overlooked piece of mashing equipment that every brewery and distillery should be pretty familiar with. People don’t promote grist hydrators too…

7 December, 2022

Is a CIP Right For You?

What Is A CIP? A general explanation of what a CIP is/does for your distillery The definition of a CIP is – Cleaning In Place. I know what you’re thinking…that’s a pretty broad definition since…

5 September, 2021

United States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act

We seem to have become big fans of advocacy and policy change around here and for good reason. There has been a lot of movement in governing bodies to make changes to combat the massive…

24 June, 2021

Distilling News: Blue Laws in the US

Liquor laws are starting to change in a big way across the US and will continue to be a hot topic in Summer 2021 Industry News. Cocktails to go and loosening of liquor sales restrictions…

27 May, 2021

Distilling News: May 2021

There has been a lot of distilling news in the last month and it is far too much to cover in a single post. Whether you get your distilling news from the American Distilling Institute,…

19 March, 2021

TTAB Trademark Guidance: Distillery News

TTAB Trademark News Recently in distilling news, there was a precedent set by the folks at The United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) about what constitutes a “deceptive” product…

27 April, 2015

Florida Craft Distillery Law Change Supports Upward Trend

Craft distilling is starting to go the way of craft brewing in popularity: up. In what was considered a positive law change in the craft distillery industry, the Senate passed a bill that would allow…