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Max the Stillmaker

A Brazilian living in Rhode Island decides to design a still and contacts a Chinese manufacturer to build the prototype. The Chinese tell him they’ll be at the Independent Spirits Expo and he ought to come meet them there....

Are We Ready for Accelerated Aging?

“There is hope that 1-year-old whisky may soon rival 16-year bonded liquor in taste and smell and at a vastly lower cost. … Chemists are glad Prohibition is over so they no longer have to listen to bootleggers for...

State 38 Distilling: The House Built on Agave

From the early 2000s, Tequila and mezcal—Mexico’s most famous agave spirits—have experienced significant growth in popularity and consumption in the United States. According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the US (DISCUS), imports of Tequila into the US have...

Book Review: Whiskey Rebels

Whiskey Rebels, The Dreamers, Visionaries & Badasses Who Are Revolutionizing American Whiskey the new book by Men’s Health Magazine spirits and cocktails pundit, editor of Barlycorndrinks.com and judging director for the John Barleycorn International Spirits Competition, tells the stories...

Distiller Interview with Scott Blackwell & Ann Marshall of High Wire Distilling

High Wire Distilling Company, Charleston’s first operating distillery since Prohibition, paved the way for a craft-spirits revival in South Carolina. Husband-and-wife duo Scott Blackwell and Ann Marshall were steeped in the food and drink industries. After selling their popular...

Top 10 San Diego Cocktail Bars

Sunny San Diego is the antidote to overcrowded, dense LA. While freeways and SoCal sun abound here, too, traffic isn’t endless and distances are shorter. The beaches are chill and so are the locals. Under lazy palms and vivid...

Iron Fish Distillery

For his 60th birthday, Richard Anderson’s wife delivered big. Sarah Anderson sent him and brothers in-law, Dave Wallace and Craig Maxwell, to Scotland on a Scotch-tasting tour. It was a game changer. Sipping their way through distilleries across Islay, Scotland, propelled...

Hawaiian Shochu Company

For more than 200 years the histories of Japan and Hawaii have been intertwined. On May 5, 1806, the first Japanese people ever recorded to have set foot in Hawaii arrived as survivors of the cargo ship Inawaka-maru, which...

Baltimore Cocktail Bars

Baltimore. Crime reports, “The Wire,” the shadow of nearby D.C. — there are many things that cloud the reputation of Maryland’s largest city. It was a surprise, then, for a first-time visitor like myself, to see its beauty. The...

Top 10 Vancouver Bars

Surrounded by water and mountains, Vancouver is the shining big city of western Canada. This picturesque city shares some of the rich produce and mild climate (for Canada) with the U.S. West Coast below it, with Seattle being a...