Adulteration
Tasting rooms are great. You walk in, chat with the folks behind the counter (who seem almost always to be friendly) and have a chance to try a new spirit.…
Category: Compliance
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…
Pellucidity
Today is International Scotch Day. This is of course more a Diageo marketing exercise than anything else. But still, it is an opportunity to enjoy Scotland’s most famous export. And…
Deception
Recently, I was asked by the good folks at The Whiskey Reviewer to provide a few thoughts on the ongoing lawsuit involving Old Charter Bourbon. Essentially, the case boils down to…
Standards of Confusion
I like rum quite a bit. I didn’t always know that. In fact, for a long time I associated rum almost entirely with hyper-sweet brain-freeze inducing cocktails that might be…
This Fine’s for You
Yesterday, Anheuser-Busch entered into a Cease and Desist Order with the Securities and Exchange Commission, in which it agreed to pay $6 million to the U.S. Treasury (of which…
Balancing Risk
Paying taxes isn’t much fun. So it should come as no real surprise that smaller companies, including small hooch companies, regularly try to minimize their tax burdens. In fact, to do…
Arbitrage
We celebrate business successes. In fact, we even go so far as to suggest (without necessarily having empirical evidence) that success in business correlates with intelligence, moral superiority and suitability for government service. At…
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