Summer 2020 Issue
Molly Wellmann
Walking down the streets of downtown Cincinnati with native daughter Molly Wellmann (www.mollywellmann.com), it’s easy to see she’s the Queen of Cincy. Locals know...
Jay Erisman
Launched in 2014, New Riff Distilling (https://newriffdistilling.com) has been a standout craft distillery for the Cincinnati area, just a couple blocks off the Ohio...
Classic Rye Rides High
From the end of Prohibition in 1933, rye whiskies were in steady decline, with 150,000 cases of sold in the United States compared with...
Saps and Resins
Textures and tastes from tree saps and resins are underacknowledged and underutilized in an industry that raves about trees in the context of provenance...
Canadian Whisky in Three Periods
Canadian whisky is one of four recognizable global whisky styles. In all, more than 17.5 million 9-litre cases are sold annually in 160-plus countries,...
Savage & Cooke
Dave Phinney didn’t know what to expect when he knocked on the door of a cottage tucked into the hills of California’s Sonoma County.
Phinney,...
Cachaça
Rum, in some quarters, is seeing a resurgence: a burgeoning interest in production methods and an appetite for consumption. But between the blurred lines...
Find Your Tribe With Target Consumer Marketing
As a marketer, defining your target market is one your most important tasks. Why? Helping you find your consumer tribe ensures you waste as...
Vodka
On the one hand, it’s a liquid defined by three words — colorless, odorless, flavorless — and on the other, it’s a vast spectrum...
Anisette
As if life ain’t confusing enough, we have this: absinthe, aguardiente, anisette, arrack and arak; and those are just the A’s. Then there’s chinchón,...
Waterpocket Distilling
How many categories of liquor are in your home bar? If you’re like most drinkers, you’ve got the basics covered: rum, whiskey, vodka, gin,...
Behind the Scenes with Cutwater Spirits
Step into the cavernous warehouse of Cutwater Spirits — located in the Miramar neighborhood of San Diego, an area first made famous as the...
The Spirit[s] of Colorado Agriculture
Nestled in Colorado’s southeastern corner, in the shadows of the San Juan and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, barley fields in the San Luis Valley...
Sustainability in the Age of COVID-19
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the
sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in
high winds.” – Aristotle Onassis
I have two Kurdish refugees...
