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It is in some ways the best expression of what humans are able to do. Nobody else can make that! And it’s delicious.

Adam Rogers

When you get to that level of brown liquor – an age distillate of a fermented thing, grain that we learned how to plant and make grow.
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But few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.
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They could recognize each other’s style by their dots and dashes.
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It is in some ways the best expression of what humans are able to do. Nobody else can make that! And it’s delicious.
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From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren’t many of those folks.
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Not quite a science yet, but when someone’s making something weird, I like to know about it.
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There’s something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose.
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You get the soul of the person making it.
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Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still.
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From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren’t many of those folks. T
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They could recognize each other’s style by their dots and dashes. They called that the “fist.” St. George, they have a fist.
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Typically we don’t think of cities as being particularly extreme environments
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I suspect states are going to realize there’s money to be made, and they’ll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.
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They don’t understand what they’ve done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they’ll get something magic.
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You taste something from St. George, even across categories – the gin, the whisky – it tastes like something from St. George. It’s the same as going to a great bar:
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Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world.
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