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The hot, new, premium craft distillery scene is making great progress in the US. Nebraska has just passed Legislative Bill 549 which will take effect this fall, allowing the concept of micro-distilleries. Craft distilleries will be allowed to sell their spirits directly to the public like micro-breweries do, at their own restaurants, as well as in stores like regular distilleries.
Upstream Brewing Company plans to open the first distillery in Nebraska since Prohibition. Their brew master Zac Triemert studied distilling in Scotland for a year, earning a master's degree in 2006 in brewing and distilling from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
I think that more states are going to jump on this idea. Soon the US will be back to pre-Prohibition years when there were hundreds of craft distilliries around the country sell premium, high quality, small batch, hand made spirits of all kinds. Just like the micro-brewery scene that has developed over the past 30 years, so too will we have a great micro-distillery scene. I look forward to it. Hopefully the more people learn about quality over quantity, the more educated consumers there are, the less low quality products we will see. (And maybe more responsible drinking where sipping is the game, not binge drinking.) I'm all for it.
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3-23-2007 @10:47PM dan said... I went to McMenamins Edgefield Distillery (Portland, OR area in Troutdale) recently. A couple of years ago I tried their whiskey in a Portland bar. It was like fire, way too much top end distillate coming forward on the first and last taste. This time however, much of the initial fire was gone... oh there is still some top end alcohol present, but to a much reduced degree, and with some continuous swirling in the glass, it mellows out. I bought two bottles, for more tasting and for the fact that the product is unavailable except at the distillery in Troutdale, making it a unique interest in my liquor cabinet. I am certain that an increase in distilleries will be interesting and just like microbrews-the ones that are subpar will be go bye-bye in the marketplace. I look forward to some real professionals getting involved and using some unique aging barrels and distilling techniques.
cheers!
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