The post-Prohibition era was very, very good for a very, very small number of people. If you had pushed your way through the 1920s with a toe still dipped in the legal liquor business—by managing, for example, to secure one of the small number of ‘medicinal spirits’ licenses available—you might be one of the lucky […]
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When Rockefeller and DuPont Took On Prohibition
May leveler, wealthier, brutally capitalist heads prevail
The Taft Decision: What is Whiskey, Anyway?
The battle over what could be called “whiskey” and what was just an imitation. Because really, who’s going to buy something labeled “imitation?”
A (Very Brief) History of Straight Whiskey
That’d be the legal kind of straight, not the un-iced kind
The Brown Jug Bills
Flipping the Script on Liability
Dram Shop Laws
As alcohol-related rules roll back across the country, server liability laws have only gotten stricter. Where do so-called “dram shop” laws come from, and are they a just way to fight drunk driving?
A Brief History of “Bottled In Bond”
Ensuring that the only chemicals in our whiskey are the ones we’re looking for
Chicken Wings are Sandwiches in Colorado
Why a lot of places require food service at bars, and how sometimes, that can have mighty strange consequences.
In the Spirit of the Law 