Ken Lewis is regarded as a master marketer who helped to reshape the liquor retailing business and reinvented himself along the way. His creation, The Party Source megastore, is the largest outlet of its kind in the multi-state area known as “greater Cincinnati,” and his most recent venture, New …

  Here’s a “Geeks Who Drink” trivia question: “What’s the oldest wine region in the US?” Answer: New Mexico. With less than one tenth of one percent of the total of today’s estimated $37 billion American wine industry, the state is small in production but big in history. It all …

Kentucky is synonymous with Bourbon. (Okay, and horses.) And bourbon was recognized by the U.S. Congress as “the true American spirit.” So what’s a distilling industry newcomer to do when the competition has been entrenched almost since the inception of the country? For the New Riff Distillery, the double-shot answer …

Halifaxian (Halifaxoid? Halifaxinite?? HALIGONIAN!!!) Roy Clorey has worked at the same job for 370 dog years, but the only thing dogged about him is his desire to keep going. “This is my ninth bar in the same hotel but in different locations,” chuckled Clorey, his eyes shining and his open …

Everyone knows about the micro-brewery and micro-distillery phenomenon, but now there are two new oldie additions to this heady mix. The new kids in town are cider and mead. Both of these potables are increasing in popularity; their taste is different and good and they are gluten-free. Mead-makers are a …