Overproof
It has been sunny and warmer here in Seattle for the past couple of days – a welcome respite from the prior 175 consecutive days in which when our temperature…
Category: ABV
Passing the Test
A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to take the exam for the Wine & Spirit Education Trust Level 2 Award in Spirits. The exam followed a two-day intensive class that…
Public Health with a Side of Tyranny
We celebrated Thanksgiving this past week, and as our table was attended by a close relation who recently celebrated 18 months of sobriety our occasion was a dry feast (not the…
Death or Taxes?
Since at least Daniel Defoe’s 1726 work The Political History of The Devil, we’ve come to associate death and taxes with the concept of certainty. [Note: Mr. Defoe is not…
Sampling for Noncompliance
A few weeks ago, the TTB released the results of its 2015 Alcohol Beverage Sampling program. Unfortunately for our friends in D.C., this program isn’t quite as enjoyable as it…
