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Somebody Comes to the Defense of Big Distilling

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Last week we wondered if the locavore-distilling movement was a good one. Well, over at The Atlantic, Clay Risen isn’t so sure it is. “I have yet to sample a craft whiskey that comes close even to Jim Beam’s most basic offering,” he writes. “We should appreciate [craft distillers] the way we would a rock band just emerging from its bassist’s garage: full of promise and passion, but with a long way to go they they make a hit.” (It’s also worth mentioning that the term CD-ROM is used unironically in the story, which makes you wonder when it was actually first written. 1998?) [Atlantic]

Somebody Comes to the Defense of Big Distilling