A message from the ATO

The National Distilling Institute (NDI) will partner with other training organisations to deliver Certificate IV in Artisan Fermented Products (Distilling), which is Nationally accredited in Australia under the Australian Skills Quality Authority ASQA.

A note from our conference sponsors Grapeworks and Tanium.

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The Queensland Government is in the process of updating its Craft Brewing Strategy (including renaming the strategy to include distillers), and you should have recently received a survey to provide input. This represents a great opportunity to have our voice as an industry heard, including the common goals that we’ve been working on as the QDA.

The Alcohol School, sponsored by 'Lallemand Biofuels and distilled Spirits' is educating distilled spirits and fuel ethanol producers in the multidisciplinary sciences of ethanol production.

A message from our conference 2023 Sponsor Fermentis.

Lock in a two (2) year fixed electricity rate with Blue NRG, only available to members of the Australian Distillers Association.

Members would be aware of two recent articles in the paper that discussed the issues around technical standards. The Technical Standards Project Group met during the Annual Conference.

The Australian Taxation Office have recently published Excise Ruling ER 2023/1 – Excise: the meaning of ‘legally and economically independent’ on their webpage. A Ruling Compendium has also been published and is available.

National Distilling Institute (NDI) seeks Australian-qualified Trainers and Assessors who want to work with the NDI to teach Certificate IV in Artisan Fermented Products (Distilling).

Many members would be aware of the success of many Australian Distillers receiving awards at the recent San Francisco World Spirits Competition. This is the largest and most prestigious spirits competition in the world. It is built on a solid reputation they have developed over 43 years.