"... If you know how to distill, it makes drinking a much more interesting experience." A big part of being an adventurous eater is the experience of DIY—of starting with basic ingredients and utilizing heat, time, a deft hand and a little salt to come up with culinary brilliance. (At least, that’s the way it’s supposed to work.) As it goes with food, so it goes with drink. Home brewers got things rolling a few decades back, working with malt syrup and mail-order kits to undercut the hegemony of the big brewers with craft-brewed beers that went on to spark a microbrew revolution. Garagistes and other small-scale winemakers followed soon thereafter, and in the process helped inject creative talent into...
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