It takes heat–at least 173 degrees worth–and a still to produce distilled spirits. There are two basic styles of stills:
Distillers have a number of choices when it comes to making spirits. All spirits start out as fermented beverages. By
What happens when you distill beer? Well, whiskey starts out with the same basic raw ingredients as beer, so what
In late 1970s, if anyone had predicted that, by the turn of the century, American cities big and small would
Among Italian craft brewers, two young men strike one’s imagination at first meeting: Agostino “the Bear,” and Teo, “the man
Beer faces an uphill battle in Italy, where it has always been considered inferior to wine. The climate, culture and
Real ale was the term used by the Campaign for Real Ale in the early 1970s when it set out
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Baseball and Ballantine. What great memories that ad line brings back for me. It was an omnipresent ad slogan on