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Micro-Distilleries Lead the Geek Booze Craze
The
micro-distilling craze gets even more micro with limited-edition
booze infused with geek concentrate. Good stuff-if you can find
it.
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Unaged Corn Whiskey Kings
County Distillery Perfect for: Purists, drinkers
on the go, Kentuckian émigrés to Williamsburg,
Brooklyn. Geek Factor: This New York distiller sells jacket-pocketable
200-ml bottles, relying on magnetic induction to heat its five
hobby-size stills.
Price: $20
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Agua Azul Cristal #2 St.
George Distillery Perfect for: Steampunk margarita
connoisseurs. Geek Factor: Whole agave piñas proved nearly
invulnerable to crushing for fermentation, resisting the violence
of machetes, chain saws, a hammer mill, and a tree chipper.
What worked: an industrial dog-food grinder.
Price: $60
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Doubled & Twisted Light Whiskey Charbay
Distillery Perfect for: Beer drinkers who are sure
the proof is out there-99 proof, that is. Geek factor: Other
whiskeys are distilled from a beerlike slurry. This one begins
as actual beer, in the form of a tasty IPA. Totally hopped up.
Price: $58
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SFvodka China Beach Treasure
Island Distillery Perfect for: Chemists, the hangover-sensitive.
Geek Factor: Instead of the usual charcoal filter, this maker-headed
by a distiller with a background in medical diagnostics-uses
a counterflow molecular sieve to take out lighter molecules
like hangover-inducing acetone.
Price: $35
