Alcademics

Below is a collection of new spirits launches from my Instagram page. Click on over to insta for more info. Read more →

There's not an entry about me in the new Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails - surely an oversight - but there is one by me. I was asked to write the entry for "Ice, Science of its Use." I did it in two and a half pages that took... Read more →

For the Alcademics Book Club, we're reading Sweetness and Power, about sugar. Every time I read about the history of sugar, particularly the heyday of slavery-powered production in the 1700s in the Caribbean, I'm always like, "What happened to Portugal-controlled Brazilian sugar?" The Portuguese were early leaders in sugarcane production... Read more →

I have just started contributing a couple stories a month to Bevvy.co. My first one just went live and it's here. It's about oleo saccharum. Read more →

I wrote this story, which first appeared here on AlcoholProfessor.com. Reconsidering the Smashing Legacy of Carry Nation in Three Books by Camper English Carry Nation, the anti-alcohol crusader, was a nutjob who heard voices that told her to smash up saloons. She was also a towering hulk of over six... Read more →