School of Wine and Spirits

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In 1824, George Smith took out the first legal distillery license in Speyside. His moonshining neighbors threatened to burn him alive—so he carried two loaded pistols to survive. 🔫🥃

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#WhiskyHistory #Speyside

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While men fled, the women of the Highlands hid illegal copper stills in cradle beds and casks under flour sacks to outsmart tax officers. 👩‍🍳🌾

Meet the unsung matriarchs of Scotch: https://t.co/xKaRhbFuce

#WhiskyHistory #HerStory

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Why we burn the inside of our barrels. Unpack the fascinating history, science, and legends of America's native spirit in "America's Spirit" by Robert Mohr.

Order your copy today: https://t.co/FvwTwfmwp0 🥃📖

#AmericasSpirit #BourbonHistory

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How did 18th-century Scottish moonshiners evade the taxman? A highly coordinated, 30-mile acoustic alarm chain made of horns and whistles. 📢🤫

Read the full smuggling history: https://t.co/xKaRhbFuce

#WhiskyHistory #Scotland

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Issue 183: The Barrel's Inner Skin - Where Wood Meets Spirit

Explore how the interior surface of a cask — its char, its grain, its memory — shapes every spirit and wine it touches. Eight bottles that reveal what happens between wood and liquid.

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Issue 182: The Grain of Grit - Earned Through Friction

Eight bottles shaped by resistance — from harsh climates and stubborn traditions to uncompromising processes that force flavor through difficulty rather than ease.

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Issue 181: The Furnace of Patience - Heat Shaped by Time

This issue explores how sustained heat — in barrel warehouses, volcanic soils, copper pot stills, and sun-drenched vineyards — transforms raw material into something irreversible and extraordinary.

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From copper pot stills to clay amphora, the vessels that shape fermentation and distillation leave fingerprints on every sip. This issue follows the material evidence of craft across eight categories.

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Issue 179: The Marrow of Making - Essence Before Ornament

Eight bottles that strip craft to its core, revealing the essential character that no finishing, branding, or marketing can fabricate — the irreducible truth of how something was made.

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Cheers!

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The theater of the smoked cocktail. Unpack the fascinating history, science, and legends of America's native spirit in "America's Spirit" by Robert Mohr.

Order your copy today: https://t.co/FvwTwfmwp0 🥃📖

#AmericasSpirit #BourbonHistory

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Hidden in the mountain mist, Highland outlaws risked freezing to death in tiny "bothies" to distill illegal Scotch. ⛰️🥃

Read how survival shaped the spirit we love today: https://t.co/xKaRhbFuce

#WhiskyHistory #Scotland

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In 2007, scientists found 100-year-old whisky frozen in Shackleton's Antarctic hut. Using chemical gas chromatography, they mapped its DNA to rebuild a lost historic flavor. 🧪❄️

Read the science: https://t.co/xKaRhbFuce

#WhiskyScience #Antarctic

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The strange sound of the secondary still. Unpack the fascinating history, science, and legends of America's native spirit in "America's Spirit" by Robert Mohr.

Order your copy today: https://t.co/FvwTwfmwp0 🥃📖

#AmericasSpirit #BourbonHistory

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Elite "cask hunters" use historic ledger forensics to locate multi-million-dollar lost whisky casks buried in dark Speyside warehouses. 🕵️‍♂️🗺️

Read about the modern gold rush: https://t.co/xKaRhbFuce

#CaskHunting #Speyside

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Why we burn the inside of our barrels. Unpack the fascinating history, science, and legends of America's native spirit in "America's Spirit" by Robert Mohr.

Order your copy today: https://t.co/FvwTwfmwp0 🥃📖

#AmericasSpirit #BourbonHistory

[School of Wine and Spirits @Smell_Better]

Why we burn the inside of our barrels. Unpack the fascinating history, science, and legends of America's native spirit in "America's Spirit" by Robert Mohr.

Order your copy today: https://t.co/FvwTwfmwp0 🥃📖

#AmericasSpirit #BourbonHistory

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Open a 25-year-old cask of Scotch, and over 40% of the liquid is completely gone. 👼🥃

Learn the science behind the "Angels' Share" evaporation tax: https://t.co/xKaRhbFuce

#AngelsShare #WhiskyScience

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Kentucky’s secret weapon is buried in its rocks. Unpack the fascinating history, science, and legends of America's native spirit in "America's Spirit" by Robert Mohr.

Order your copy today: https://t.co/FvwTwfmwp0 🥃📖

#AmericasSpirit #BourbonHistory