The Craft Distillery Market 2018media.mycrowdwisdom.com.s3.amazonaws.com/adi/... · 9. Red Cedar Spirits 10. Bear Creek Distillery A. Silver Owl Distilling B. Copper Ridge Distillery

TheCraftDistilleryMarket2018

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MichaelKinstlickCEO,CopperseaDistillingADIResearchEconomist

DistilleryNamesWordCloud

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DistilleryNamesGame:RealorImaginary?

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1. SevenBearsSpirits2. WesternLibertySpirits3. GoldenEagleCraftDistillery4. SouthHollowDistilling5. HorseOakDistilling6. TwoBirdsArtisanSpirits7. GoldenHillDistillery8. Ironfish Distilling9. RedCedarSpirits10. BearCreekDistillery

A. SilverOwlDistillingB. CopperRidgeDistilleryC. IronBaySpiritsD. NorthernRanchCraftWhiskyE. BigWhiteCreekDistilleryF. BlackBearDistilleryG. HighRockDistillingH. BlackRockDistillingI. PineBluffsDistillingJ. FireOakDistillery

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CraftDistilleryMarketSnapshot2019• Databaseof3600UniqueSpiritsProducers2006-2018• 2900ListingsinTTBDSPpermitholdersfile(Dec2018).

• Plus370DroppedDSPs• And300No-DSPADIListings

• Approximately1700CraftProducersatyear-end2017.

• 1250Identified OperatingCraftDistilleriesasofyear-end2018• 250Estimated CraftDistillers(“HiddenEntrants”)• 200KnownandestimatedNon-distillerProducers

• Infusers,Rectifiers,Blenders


Industriesfollow“Density-DependentProcess”

Data:TTB,MichaelKinstlick ©MichaelKinstlickandCopperseaDistilling,LLC

• Density=NumberofIndustryParticipants

• Legitimation– Processofsocialacceptance– Obscurityto“taken-for-grantedness.”– Legalchanges– State/locallicensing,FET– Increaseswithmoreentrants

• Competition– Accesstoresources(inputs,labor,customers)– Alsoincreaseswithmoreentrants

“Density-DependentProcesses”


• FoundingRateofNewEntrants– RiseswithincreasingLegitimation– FallswithIncreasingCompetition

• Death/ExitRateofExistingEntrants– FallswithincreasingLegitimation– RiseswithIncreasingCompetition

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Supply…andDemand• USProducersrevenue5.2%5-yearCAGR– Per-CaseRevenue2.8%CAGR– CaseVolumes2.3%CAGR

• SpiritsAdultBevSharenow37% (33%06-10)

• FromDISCUS2018EconomicReport…– “GrowthofCraftDistillersacrosscountryhelptomodernizelaws,buildexcitement,andincreasespiritsconsumerbase”

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U.S.ProductionCraftDistilleries,1982-2018

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CraftDistilleriesvs.CraftBreweries


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Craft Distilleries vs Microbrews by Industry Age (Microbrew start = 1961, Craft Distilleries = 1982)

MicroBreweries Craft Distilleries

Conclusion• AsCraftDistillersfollowtheBrewpubmodel,the

numberofpotentialentrantsbecomesverylarge.

• CraftDistillerieshavepassedthroughthelegitimationprocessandrevitalizedoneoftheoriginalAmericanindustries.

• CraftDistillersaretheleadingedgeofinnovation…buttheBigBoysstilldominatethelandscape.


Data&Methods• WhatisaCraft-Distillery?

1. IndependentFirm• Belowacertainproductionvolume.(40-50k9Lcases,generally)

2. Distillingspiritsthemselves3. Bottling&Marketingthemdirectly

• OtherCraftProducersinclude…• Barrelers &Bottlers• Importers• Rectifiers• Infusers• ContractDistillers

• Data• ADIDirectories,2006-2019• TTBDSPpermitholdersfoia file(online,2010-2018)• StateGuildwebsites• DISCUSreports


AbouttheAuthorMichaelKinstlick comestothespiritsindustryfroma20yearcareerinfinance,technology,andinsurance.Heco-foundedCoppersea Distillingin2011.Coppersea iscurrentlyproducingdistinctivewhiskiesusingitsheritage-methodsdistillingpractices.MichaelhasaBAinEconomicsfromColumbiaUniversity,aMSinIndustrialEngineeringfromNorthwestern,andaMBAfromtheHaasSchoolofBusinessatU.C.Berkeley.


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