The shift in public opinion is already influencing consumer behavior. More than half of marijuana users report drinking less ...

A second distillation run through a copper pot still further raises the alcohol level and removes impurities from the spirit. At this point, masters distillers separate the heads (the first liquid ...

Distilling spirits remains as ubiquitous as anything in Alan Bishop’s memory. Born into a family of Kentucky moonshiners, he was around the distilling process from a young age. Bishop possessed his ...

During fermentation, the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and esters ... wash is pumped into a pot-column still, where a process called low rectification distillation occurs.

A Harvard psychiatrist studying marijuana feels that the drug is probably less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. The psychiatrist, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, director of psychiatric research at the Mass.