Whiskey, Taxes & Liberty Poles
For those who live in western Pennsylvania and love whiskey, it is impossible to escape the history of the rebellion against an excise tax that happened here. Pieces of the story are scattered in museums, cemeteries and reenactments. Anyone...
Interview with Ryan & Wood Distilleries
In the seaside Massachusetts town of Gloucester, Bob Ryan, his wife, Kathy, and son Doug, along with Bob’s nephew, Dave Wood, opened Ryan & Wood Distilleries (ryanandwood.com) in 2006, bringing spirits production to his hometown in the form of...
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...
Interview with Nicole Lebedevitch
Born in Bethany, Connecticut, near New Haven, Nicole Lebedevitch had plans for a music career. She moved to Boston to go to school at Berklee College of Music, studying music business and piano. Working in restaurants on the side,...
2016 Distillery Of The Year
Colin Spoelman grew up the son of a Presbyterian minister in Harlan County, one of Kentucky’s 39 dry counties. Despite growing up in a town with no liquor stores or bars, Spoelman, as recounted in the prologue of his...
The Phoenix of Distilling, Re-emerges.
Chip Tate has never been a man of singular focus.
Case in point: He earned his B. A. from William and Mary, and then a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. But then, one class shy...
Interview Michael Martensen
Growing up in Wyoming with a stint in Oregon, Dallas-based Michael Martensen (@imbibemartensen on Twitter) moved to Argentina not long after high school. At 19, he wasn’t feeling inspired by much and was unsure of what direction to head,...
Top 10 Dallas Bars
Houston is the most international Texas city, happily reflected in the thriving food and drink scene, while hipster Austin gets all the love for its youthful mix of music and tech, food trucks and pop-ups. But what about Dallas?...
