A devil's bargain.
Byline: The Register-Guard Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons rarely achieves an outcome anyone can be proud of: No matter how noble the counterbalancing compromise, in the end the wrong thing gets done. That's what happened Thursday when the U.S. Senate struck a...

How alcohol ads target teens: they're cute. They're funny. But did you ever think that those funny, sometimes annoying frogs croaking the name of a beer could be dangerous to you? (drugs).
Jesse, age 20, has been sober for about four years. But when he was drinking heavily, his choice of booze depended on image. "It couldn't be just any brand. Bud was OK--it has a cool image. There's another brand that's a lot cheaper, but no one would ever bring...

The truth about tequila: a Sarasota Magazine tasting reveals the surprising sophistication of this often misunderstood spirit.
Most of us view tequila as the drink of desperadoes, something raw and powerful that Clint Eastwood would knock back in a sordid saloon. But tequila is actually one of the great liquors of the world, with enough subtle nuances to hold its own with today's sophisticated drinkers. Connoisseurs...

Glenfiddich's new `Cuban' Scotch off-limits to U.S. drinkers. (Foreign Investment).
Hyped as "an eclectic fusion of Scotland and Cuba," Glenfiddich Havana Reserve 21 Year Old Scotch whisky is already making handsome profits for its distillers, William Grant & Sons International Ltd. "Basically, we've sold everything we could produce," the distiller's rare whisky manager, James Doherty, said in...

Origins and Rise of the British Distillery.
Origins and Rise of the British Distillery. By William T. Harper (New York & United Kingdom: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999. vii plus 30lpp.). The dramatic rise in the British consumption of spirits through the early eighteenth century still has the power to startle and intrigue a...

Oscar the grouch's fine wine.
The purpose of my project is to design and build an effective process to make alcohol that can be used as motor fuel using garbage. I hypothesize that I will be able to successfully build an apparatus that will make fuel. The first step is to build a three-stage...

Notas de cuarto.
The Jack Daniel Distillery is proud to sponsor one of the greatest living legends of Mexican traditional music Vicente & Alejandro Fernandez' Lazos Invencibles concert tour. The tour, which marks the first pairing of the reigning king of ranchera music with his son, who has established his own name...

Retro style: redefining yesterday's green light as red.
I'm no fan of the Prohibitionists of yore, but they're starting to look better all the time. The Anti-Saloon League inveighed mightily against the "Rum Trust" of distillers and tavern keepers. But at least it didn't propose to jail these persons or seize their businesses as punishment for having enslaved...

Culture jamming ... visits Adbusters, a Vancouver-based campaigning group that combines parody with politics.
The viewers of CNN Headline News were in for a bit of a shock. One afternoon last September, amid the channel's standard fare of news bites and ads for cars and mutual funds, this appeared: an animated pig, smacking its lips, rising out of a map of North America. `The...

Brazil bottles a good idea.
Few Liquor-industry executives know this, but the Western Hemisphere's best-selling spirit isn't Jack Daniels, or Johnnie Walker, or even Bacardi. It's Brazil's Pirassununga 51 -- a potent cachaca liquor distilled from fermented sugarcane juice and sold throughout this vast nation of 160 million people, from corner markets in Sao...