Email: info@americanstilllife.com
Twitter: @AmStillLife
» Where to Find
BALCONES SINGLE MALT named #132 on F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal's 'Top 140 Spirits in the World' list for 2012!
Whisky Magazine names BALCONES DISTILLERY 'Craft Whisky Distillery of the Year' 2012!
BALCONES' BRIMSTONE wins Silver Medal/Best of Category for Smoked Whiskey from American Distilling Institute
BALCONES' SINGLE MALT wins Chairman's Trophy for 'Top American Whiskey' at Ultimate Spirits Challenge 2012 in New York.
BALCONES' SINGLE MALT wins Gold Medal/Best of Category for Non-Typical Whiskey from American Distilling Institute
BALCONES' SINGLE MALT wins coveted Double-Gold medal at San Francisco World Wine & Spirits 2012
BOYD & BLAIR POTATO VODKA named #22 (and top vodka) on F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal's 'Top 140 Spirits in the World' list for 2012!
BREUCKELEN DISTILLING 77 WHISKEY wins Silver Medal/Best of Category for Rye Whiskey from American Distilling Institute
CORSAIR ARTISAN DISTILLERY takes 16 medals, including 2 'Best of Category' from American Distilling Institute
RESERVOIR RYE WHISKEY wins coveted Double-Gold medal at San Francisco World Wine & Spirits 2012
Wine Enthusiast loves SMOOTH AMBLER!
OLD SCOUT BOURBON = 95 points
GREENBRIER GIN = 94 points
SMOOTH AMBLER OLD SCOUT wins Gold Medal/Best of Category for Artisan Merchant-Bottled Whiskey from American Distilling Institute
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

This is American ingenuity.
This is The American Still Life Collection.

Celebrating our maverick national spirit by presenting the best of the craft distilling movement. Craft distilleries are vigilant operations making spirits in small batches, often producing less in a year than multi-national, branded distilleries bottle in an hour. The large, continuous stills used by major producers are eschewed here for hand-operated pot stills. Pot stills are labor-intensive but allow the craft distiller better control over flavors, and leave room for experimentation. This allows craft distillers to focus on local ingredients and envelope-pushing techniques to make small volume batches of unique, high quality spirits. As recently as the late 1990’s, there was only a handful of craft distillers in the U.S. Now, there are more than 200, igniting fires beneath small copper pot stills located in any type of edifice big enough to house them. Within the span of a single generation, there exists an entire and varied sub-category of idiosyncratic spirits made by creative, entrepreneurial individuals looking to expand the horizons for homegrown spirits. Their collective mission is a new breed of distilled beverages, distinctively American, that stands a philosophy apart from over-hyped, soulless mainstream offerings. We honor these new pioneers and savor their handmade products.