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Subscribe Coming Full Circle: Philippines craft distillery confident in post-COVID-19 growth with localised products and new sales channels By Pearly Neo Philippines-based craft distillery Full Circle Distillers says it is ready to tap into post-COVID-19 growth banking on its localised offerings and new sales channels established during the pandemic. According to Full Circle’s Co-Founder and Head Distiller Matthew Westfall, the Philippines is one of the largest gin-consuming markets in the world, taking up over 43% of g...

Barrell Bourbon Announces Final Bottling of 2020: Batch 027 Barrell Bourbon Announces Final Bottling of 2020: Batch 027 Barrel Craft Spirits, the independent distillers based in Louisville, Kentucky, recently announced their final bottling of 2020: Barrell Bourbon Batch 027. This new release is a blend of straight bourbon whiskeys distilled and aged using American white oak barrels. According to the prepared statement announcing these new releases, the batch began with a blend of six-year-old whiskey aged in fruit forward barrels in Tennessee with five-year-old whiskey, aged in spice forward ...

J.T. Meleck isn't yet a household name or tourist destination, but Michael Frugé has high hopes for the brand of vodka and whiskey he's distilling in the rural Acadia Parish community of Branch. Frugé, a fourth-generation farmer, had been mulling over the idea of creating craft spirits out of the rice he grows for several years as a way to diversify his business. "We've been here for almost 150 years now," Frugé said. "And so many people have asked the same question: How or why did you end up doing this? And it was just to add value to the crop that we were already growing so that...