U.S. Gin Association Created To Highlight And Support Craft Distillers In The Category
Durham, N.C. – A new craft spirits organization has been created to progress the affinity and passion for the Gin category in the U.S. amongst distillers, the beverage trade (on- and off-premise stakeholders), and media while celebrating the innovation within this growing category. Spearheaded by Melissa and Lee Katrincic, co-founders and owners of Durham Distillery, distillers of Conniption Gin, and organized by a handful of pioneering craft distilleries, the U.S. Gin Association will share the wonderful new things U.S. gin distillers bring to the market each year through education and other programming.
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All hands in: Berkshire Mountain Distillers mobilizes to make sanitizer to fight COVID
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Posted Feb 17, 2021
Michael Sharry, a distiller at Berkshire Mountain Distillers in Sheffield, checks on a batch of Greylock Gin on a morning in December 2020.Emily Thurlow/Special to The Republican
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SHEFFIELD Businesses throughout the state may have started 2020 with certain financial forecasts, but after the coronavirus pandemic struck, those expectations went out the window.
And even businesses that were deemed essential, like Sheffield-based Berkshire Mountain Distillers, experienced a paradigm shift. A project that was five years in the making and slated to launch in 2020 was shelved as dining-in service in restaurants in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York was halted, said Chris Weld, owner and founder of the distillery.