Meet the New Boss
Regardless of how you may feel about the results of our recent presidential election, I think most of us agree that the peaceful transition of power from one administration to…
Thoughts on Spirits and the Laws that Govern them, Triple Distilled and Lovingly Aged
Regardless of how you may feel about the results of our recent presidential election, I think most of us agree that the peaceful transition of power from one administration to…
In late 2015, President Obama signed into law the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (the “PATH Act”). As a result of the passage of the PATH Act,…
This past week, I had the chance to visit two separate distilleries – each of which was outside Washington. First, I got to play “distiller in training” with the…
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…
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…
A few weeks ago, I posted about the Feds’ Share, discussing the amount that federal excise taxes add to the cost of producing distilled spirits (and therefore the amount paid…
As anyone interested in whisky knows, the “angels’ share” is the amount of the spirit that will be lost to evaporation during the time that the spirit is aged. The…