Now, he and his two partners in Kings County Distillery are at the forefront of a wave of small-batch brewing of spirits in the city, particularly in Brooklyn.
— Julia Moskin The New York Times: The Kings County Distillery has gone from "illicit hobby into a full-fledged business," part of a wave of small-batch brewing of spirits in New York City, mostly in Brooklyn.
Their output varies from the merely drinkable to the toxic: a dud batch of home-brewed spirit recently claimed around 100 lives in Kenya.
Pot still distillation, the original method that made small volumes of spirits in individual batches, was the sole style of distillation until an Edinburgh distiller named Stein suddenly thought in the early 1820s, Maybe theres another process, a more modern and less labor-intensive way to distill grain beers into high-alcohol spirits.
Some experimentation later, Santa Fe Spirits' first batch of artisanal apple brandy was born.
But nothing held our attention like the shiny copper vessels, which along with other contraptions for brewing beer and distilling spirits (the first batch of vodka and rum is expected this fall) are arrayed behind the bar.
The category of spirits -- which includes whisky, rye, bourbon and related alcohols -- has for the last few years enjoyed a boom in popularity, partly thanks to a renewed fervor for American, local and small-batch products.
The first batch of responses, published in the Winter issue, will not lift the spirits of anyone hoping for a change.
So, in the closing days of this election campaign, we again invoke this spirit of well-intentioned, scientific scepticism in considering the latest batch of polling data.
