U.S. Distilleries Applaud Federal Ruling to Designate American Single Malt Class
LOVINGSTON, Va. (July 29, 2022) – Virginia Distillery Firm and members of the American Single Malt Whiskey Fee (ASMWC), a company designed to outline, set up, promote and defend the class of American Single Malts, are celebrating a brand new ruling based mostly on the discover of rulemaking course of by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Commerce Bureau (TTB) that can formally outline American Single Malt whisky.
The rule ensures that any spirit labeled American Single Malt have to be created from 100% malted barley, mashed, distilled and matured in a single distillery, produced completely within the U.S., distilled to a proof not exceeding 160, matured in oak casks not exceeding 700 liters and bottled at a minimal of 40% ABV.
In the present day, the TTB issued the Discover of Proposed Rulemaking within the Federal Register and can enter a 60-day remark interval for the general public and trade to counsel adjustments to the proposed guidelines.
“Saying American Single Malts as a proper class by the TTB is a historic second for the trade, because it has been many years since a brand new whisky class of this magnitude has been added to the Beverage Alcohol Guide,” stated Virginia Distillery Firm CEO Gareth H. Moore and ASMWC Treasurer. “The American whisky class was synonymous with bourbon simply 15 years in the past, however the resurgence of rye diversified that view. The American Single Malt class will additional broaden the view of the American whisky client and gas innovation and premiumization throughout home merchandise.”
Virginia Distillery Firm, the most important independently owned American Single Malt distillery within the U.S. and one of many co-founding members of the ASMWC has been extremely energetic in advocacy efforts main as much as the latest announcement. The distillery has labored in shut alignment for a number of years with advocates at Westland, Balcones and Copperworks distilleries to push for the designation.
Moore added: “Formally defining American Single Malt will allow retailers and in the end shoppers to acknowledge the rising class that may in any other case be misplaced within the broad array of spirits in the marketplace.”
Producers anticipate that the designation will speed up U.S. Commerce affiliation efforts for American Single Malts to be acknowledged as a class by different nations and count on development in each export in addition to rivals small and enormous.
In 2020, Virginia Distillery Firm launched Braveness & Conviction, its signature American Single Malt whisky, and in 2021 added three new whiskies to the Braveness & Conviction lineup that includes particular person bottlings of the core trio of casks – bourbon, sherry and cuvée – that make up Braveness & Conviction. Final fall, the distillery launched its inaugural cask energy whisky, Braveness & Conviction Cuvée Single Cask and in 2022 started rolling out Braveness & Conviction PX Sherry Single Cask and Braveness & Conviction Bourbon Single Cask.
The Braveness & Conviction line is probably the most awarded American Single Malt with greater than 100 accolades earned over the past 5 years, together with a 98-point ranking – the very best awarded in 2022 – and #12 within the High 100 within the 2022 Final Spirits Problem, Finest American Single Malt within the 2022 Worldwide Whisky Competitors, and a finest of sophistication gold medal on the 2022 LA Worldwide Spirits Competitors. The road was produced to fulfill the requirements that the ASMWC proposed in anticipation for the class designation. Coinciding with the rollout of Braveness & Conviction, the distillery launched an entire information to American Single Malt whisky.
For extra details about the American Single Malt Whiskey Fee, go to https://www.americansinglemaltwhiskey.org/.
For extra details about Virginia Distillery Firm, go to https://vadistillery.com.
About Virginia Distillery Firm
Staffed by a neighborhood Virginia crew mentored by Scottish consultants with many years of expertise, Virginia Distillery Firm is the most important devoted American Single Malt whisky distillery within the U.S. The distillery has a present annual manufacturing quantity of 80,000 4.5L circumstances and rising. At full capability, the distillery can produce over 8,000 casks yielding 350,000 4.5L circumstances yearly. The distillery produces award-winning Braveness & Conviction American Single Malt on-site utilizing malted barley from North America and water from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. As well as, the distillery provides the award-winning VHW sequence, made with 100% malted barley. Showcasing each Outdated and New World whisky-making, the road marries whisky made on-site in Virginia with whisky from Scotland.
