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Alabama Just Made Its First Legal Whiskey in 100 Years
No surprise that the product launch was a success. Alabama, after all, has been waiting for homegrown whiskey for a very long time.
Chartreuse Is a Monk's Secret Formula to Long Life
Father Michael Holleran—an American monk who oversaw the production of 400-year-old Chartreuse liqueur by the Carthusian Order in France—says that the traditions of alchemy, distilling, and the search for the Holy Grail are all inextricably linked.
This Artist Wants to Turn Winston Churchill's Blood into Gin
"In the morning I will be sober and Winston Churchill will still be dead."
The UK's Economy Is Powered by Whisky
According to a recent report, the Scotch whisky industry adds nearly £5 billion to the economy of the UK, making it bigger than the UK's iron and steel, textiles, shipbuilding, or computer industries. Who wouldn't drink to that?
How to Drink Moonshine in Bali
Balinese arak is made in MacGyvered backyard stills. Even if you manage to avoid a batch laced with lethal methanol, you'll need a few pointers on drinking it—lest you wind up on your belly, hanging off a ledge, vomiting into a tangle of weeds, begging...
Kentucky's Whiskey Fungus Problem Is Out of Control
Residents of Shively, Kentucky used take the black soot that covered their homes and cars as a given, not realizing that it was a preventable fungus caused by the nearby whiskey distilleries.
Moonshine Runs Through the Veins of Prince Edward Island
The culture of moonshine is strong in poor, rural Canadian areas where people are used to making everything from scratch, cherish a healthy disrespect for politics and the law, and have plenty of acreage to work in total obscurity.
Alabama's Moonshine Task Force Is Closing In on the Last Few Aging Bootleggers
The ABC Board, which operates a statewide monopoly on liquor sales, is funded by a liquor tax and performs its own enforcement. Recently, enforcement has taken the form of a massive crackdown on their only competition: moonshiners.