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Ok, Arrived at the Inn at Gig Harbor, Very Nice, Classroom is best we have ever had. Stopped by the distillery next door, met with Justin and it is also Very Nice. The Italian still has some nice whistles and bells that Justin will be discussing. Also as a bonus the Italian Still rep is here to join the class tomorrow. This is going to be another great workshop week!!

Sounds like you are driven to do this. Congratulations. Allan

Welcome. We have had a lot of folks from NY at our workshops. In fact we are looking to partner with an east coast distillery for a June 2013 workshop. Maybe you could attend that one. Cheers! Allan

There is only one week left before our next week long workshop. A couple of seats are available. Register today.. We are at Heritage DistillingCompany's distillery, which is next door to the hotel for classroom work. September 24 - 28, 2012 are the dates. Check the site for details www.ArtisanCraftDistilling.com

We are filling up for our next weeklong workshop in Gig Harbor,WA. Join us for the best value in learning how to start your own distillery. We are at Heritage DistillingCompany's distillery, which is next door to the hotel for classroom work. September 24 - 28 are the dates. Check the site for details

Please consider joining us for our next week long workshop. It will be held in Gig Harbor, WA. The hotel/classroom is next door to the distillery we are partnering with and will allow us to do more hands on than we have done before. The distillery Heritage Distilling Company is one of our former attendees and have done a really great job in marketing and innovation of their business. The dates are September 24-28, 2012. It is an aggressive agenda with a couple of evening networking events thrown in and there is an early registration discount too. We are in our third year of helping those take Their First Big Step to the Next Big Thing! Join us, for details go to www.artisancraftdistilling.com Cheers! Allan

You might consider joining us in Gig Harbor, WA September 24-28, 2012. We will be doing our next week long workshop. We are now in our third year of training those who want to own their own distillery. Business Planning and Marketing are a big part of the workshop in addition to the art and science aspects. Check out www.artisancraftdistilling.com for details. We are actually doing the hands on part of the workshop at one of our former attendees to the workshop. www.heritagedistilling.com if you want to check them out. Cheers! Allan

For those attending next week's workshop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Confirmed for Thursday evening, at “Bootleggers Bar and Grill” in Buckley-barely around the corner from Enumclaw right on 410. We will have our own room, and it is Karaoke night- in case anyone is so inspired -out front. This is the second of our networking events that proves to be a lot of fun. Especially knowing the next day is full hands on training at the big still. Still room to join us! Register today! Cheers! Allan www.artisancraftdistilling.com

Total Wine and More is coming to Washington State. Their first store in the state will be in Bellevue. 699 120th Ave NE to be exact. Total Wine and More is from the east coast. This is a large liquor store. They want to have a relationship with craft distillers.. Great folks and we wish them the best of luck. Check out the site to vote for the t shirt contest for the store. Cheers! Allan

Today we sent out our pre workshop survey to attendees to help personalize their learning experience. AND we still have some space left. We invite you to join us June 25th to the 29th. You can register on line http://artisancraftdistilling.com where you will also find a link to the hotel with special rates. Just ask for the Distilling Workshop rates. Join us June 25th to 29th in Enumclaw, WA at the base of Mt Rainier and close to SeaTac airport and Seattle. Call 509.989.2683 if you have any questions. cheers! Allan

We are scheduling our next workshop for mid September. Watch the site http://artisancraftdistilling.com for details. We will start out 2013 with the next workshop in mid March. Hope to see you.

Forgot to mention that we have special pricing on rooms for the June workshop. See you in Enumclaw! See the website for details. Cheers! Allan

In reality you will not have a perfect knowledge of what you are going to sell over the next quarter, as you know. Building the relationship with your distributor and discussing this is everything. Takes away the anxiety from you and lets you concentrate on why they carry your product in the first place. The distributor probably has a time line that works best for them. Start there and work backwards. Very important topic. Just my thought.

You could also visit your local Small business Development Center. They can assist you in gettting industry information. http://asbdc-us.org/ This is a no charge program. We cover marketing and business planning in our week long workshop. Check us out at www.artisancraftdistilling.com in addition to other aspects of the distillery business. Cheers! Allan

Please also consider our week long workshop in June. Our workshop will be in Enumclaw, WA June 25th - 29th at the base of Mt Rainier. find our agenda at www.artisancraftdistilling.com. you can also see us on Pinterest at http://pinterest.com/Distilling/ We are in our third year of training new distillers. You will find some of the distillers we trained on our pinterest site. We focus on the business planning and marketing aspects as well as the legal and compliance issues. Of course the hands on distilling training takes place too. If you ask the state liquor boards for informaiton on licenses they have granted, you will also be able to get the number of licenses that have been discontinued, or let lapesed. The industry is a business and we try to cover a lot in one week to help prepare for running the distillery as a business. That is why we call it Your First Big Step to the Next Big Thing! This is a dynamic process to be sure. Check out our testimonials on our site. Cheers! Allan

We have found from our attendees to our workshops that local zoning is often an issue. Many municipalities know little about this industry so far. Now the ones that have figured out the traffic a distillery can attract are opening it up a bit. A visit to the local officials as mentioned above is your very best option. We have found that some education to these folks can help. For example, fire codes can be interpreted differently when applying them to a distillery. Good Luck!

You might try some primary research activities. Visit your local bartenders' guild, bars, restaurants (demographics may be embeded here) and find out who and what they and their customers are looking for. Secondary, you might try looking at national trend in this industry., still pretty new depending on where you are. local lenders, municipalities still not sure how to handle this industry. hope this helps a little

Our next week long workshop will be June 25th-29th in the beautiful NW See details at www.artisancraftdistilling.com Register soon. It will be in Enumclaw, WA at the base of Mt Rainier minutes from SeaTac and Seattle. Check out our Pinterest site too. Allan

Hello from Washington State, Our next week long workshop will be June 25th - 29th in Enumclaw, Washington. check out www.artisancraftdistilling.com for details. Call if you have questions. Check out our new Pinterest site while you are on our website. Cheers! Allan

We will have some information on exporting spirits at our next week long workshop. One source for information on this in the Pacific Northwest is World Trade Center Tacoma. They are aware of the growing list of distilleries and are excited to work with them. Remember that 95% of the worlds market is outside the United States! Check them out at the link provided under the Links and Resources tab at www.ArtisanCraftDistilling.com

There is only one week left before our next week long workshop. A couple of seats are available. Register today.. We are at Heritage DistillingCompany's distillery, which is next door to the hotel for classroom work. September 24 - 28, 2012 are the dates. Check the site for details www.ArtisanCraftDistilling.com

I am glad to see your note on exporting. We at ArtisanCraftDistilling.com cover this in our workshop. We also have acess to some folks for export assitance in the state of WA. But we are always looking for opportunities to help our attendees. As you know 95% of the world's market is outside of the good ole USA. So if you have some contacts I would appreciate some information. One of our attendees in our September 2010 was from China, he may be extremely interested in your information which I will be happy to forward. Thanks again for a great post. Allan Peterson - Artisan Craft Distilling artisancraftdistilling@gmail.com

I would like to announce that we are doing our next week long workshop in Kent, WA September 12 to the 16. We will be on the campus of Green River Community College at their Kent facility. Our hands on training will take place at Sidetrack Distillery nearby courtesy of David and Larry, owners and attendees to our September 2010 workshop. Please check out www.artisancraftdistilling.com for workshop details, trainers,and Sidetrack Distillery pictures. Cheers! Allan

We are ready to take registrations for the next week long Artisan Craft Distilling workshop. This time it will be in Kent, WA on the campus of Green River Community College. Our hands on training will be at Sidetrack Distillery (former attendees to our September 2010 workshop). You can register on line at www.artisancraftdistilling.spruz.com This location is very close to SeaTac airport for those of you out of the area. Hope to see you there. Cheers! Allan