About ADC
Our goals include:
Consumer Awareness: improve awareness of artisan distilleries and spirits through the Canadian Artisan Spirit Competition, as well as other media activities.
Best Practices: provide opportunities for distillers to network and learn about best practices through various events and programs.
Community: foster a sense of community among artisan distillers in order to help develop and mature the industry as a whole.
ADC defines what distilleries and products meet our criteria through our Artisan Distillery & Product Qualifications. Distilleries and products which meet these qualifications provide consumers with the guarantee that the spirits they are purchasing are made in small batches by locally-owned producers.
ADC evolved out of the Canadian Artisan Spirit Competition, which was launched in 2017.