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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