“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play… — Adam Rogers Books 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.… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“Every four seconds, someone on earth buys a bottle of Glenlivet.” — Adam Rogers Nature 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… — Adam Rogers Around the world 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… — Adam Rogers Business 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… — Adam Rogers Certain 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… — Adam Rogers Pinot noir 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… — Adam Rogers Beer 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… — Adam Rogers Black death 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… — Adam Rogers Cities 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… — Adam Rogers Living things 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… — Adam Rogers Gin 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… — Adam Rogers Nature Copy Share Image
“Before Prohibition the United States had more than 10,000 distilleries; as of 2012 there were just about 250 at the craft scale.… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“Arroyo’s work, seventy-five years old, remains the standard reference on rum and its associated microorganisms—which is weird, if you think about it.… — Adam Rogers Five years Copy Share Image
Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like… — Adam Rogers Art Copy Share Image
Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world. When you get to that level… — Adam Rogers Age 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… — Adam Rogers Dots Copy Share Image
“You have to be smarter, let’s say, than the German researchers who found liquid in a centuries-old container and simply drank the… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“William Faulkner is supposed to have said, "Civilization begins with distillation," but I'd push even further -- beyond just distilled spirits to… — Adam Rogers Wine Copy Share Image
“If dust disperses through the air it behaves like an explosive gas -- any spark can ignite a particle, which then sets… — Adam Rogers Death Copy Share Image
