Colorado has the second most breweries in the United States, the great majority of which make small-batch craft brews.
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His own company, Steven Smith Teamaker, sells small-batch teas in restaurants and stores like Williams-Sonoma, Zabar's and even Eddie Bauer.
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Its a small-batch bourbon that, in its modern incarnation dates back to 1987, although family-lore traces the recipe to the 1830s.
Thus was born the current profusion of small-batch bourbons, boutique whiskies made with at least 51% corn (see: " The Kings of Bourbon").
Terms like small-batch, micro-lot and ultra-premium get tossed around liberally at times, with even the bigger producers trotting out their own versions of small lot, special wines from their massive portfolios.
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And it is this innovation that helped pave the way for the US craft beer scene and inspired the burgeoning small-batch brewery movement taking place in countries like Sweden and Italy.
The fact that so much small-batch spirit is made at a few large distilleries should come as no surprise, given how many independent outfits had to give up their stills during Prohibition and subsequent calamities.
Though you can certainly wander through the exhibits that explain and honour these two Mexican liquors, you could also be forgiven if you headed directly to the museum's shop for a souvenir -- such as an artisanal, small-batch spirit.
To achieve that "particular quality, " most craft distillers employ variations on small-batch pot stills, the kind of homey, copper kettle--looking devices you find at single-malt scotch distilleries, as opposed to the giant, continuous-process column stills of the big-volume liquor brands.
Much like the run-up to the previous flagship product launch, Qualcomm-backed Xiaomi has just announced that it'll be selling a small batch of pre-production second-gen Xiaomi Phones, in the hopes to get some keen users to perform last-minute checks before mass production.
Besides the footballs and baseballs, Leather Head recently produced a small batch of peach-basket-era laced basketballs for Converse, and he dabbled in rugby balls after an inquiry from Ralph Lauren.
From Etsy to Kickstarter, you can can see the growth of high quality, small batch creation of beautiful design-centric goods.
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They uniquely offer a small batch version of Australia's other much loved brew - pale ale.
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Sales took off, previously hard-to-find distributors were knocking at their door and competitors rushed to introduce their own small batch brands.
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