“It happens thousands of times a day around the world, maybe millions, yet it is the culmination of human achievement, of human science and apprehension of the natural and technical world. Some archaeologists and anthropologists have argued that the production… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“The CO2 has to come out, which it does by forming bubbles. Now, champagne is pressurized to six times the atmospheric pressure on earth at sea level, enough to propel a popped champagne cork faster than 30 miles an hour.… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play and poem,… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“The bar, though, was cool and dry—not just air-conditioner cool, but cool like they were piping in an evening from late autumn. The sun… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“It happens thousands of times a day around the world, maybe millions, yet it is the culmination of human achievement, of human science and… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“the distilled spirits business is dominated by giant producers who run immensely productive facilities that produce complex, expensive chemical admixtures year after year. That’s… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“North and Central America have thirty species of Vitis; China has another thirty. But Eurasia has only V. vinifera. And Eurasia is where wine… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell.… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“When the Black Death spread across Europe, from 1347 to 1350, physicians didn’t really have anything to make people feel better besides aqua vitae.… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“These guys weren't just shmucks off the street. They had a reputation for being right about stuff. According to some histories, Berzelius is the… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
