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1 month ago | 
daily.sevenfifty.com | Tyler Wetherall
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Del Maguey mezcal. Founded by visual artist Ron Cooper in 1995, it was the first commercially available mezcal in the U.S. at a time when few drinkers here could name the spirit. In the decades since, Del Maguey has been acquired by Pernod Ricard; Bacardi entered the game after buying Illegal Mezcal; and the once fringe spirit is now stocked in 95 percent of bars, with over 80 percent offering three or more expressions.
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2 months ago | 
daily.sevenfifty.com | Courtney Schiessl |Tyler Wetherall
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, a new trade war has begun as multiple tariffs have been threatened, enacted, and paused in various succession. The alcohol industry was almost immediately drawn into the conflict, as Canada promised retaliatory tariffs on American alcohol and pulled products from shelves in several provinces.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
news.wine.co.za | Tyler Wetherall
In May 2024, the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance (USAPA) hosted their annual conference, Alcohol Policy 20, in Arlington, Virginia, gathering hundreds of state and local organizers, researchers, community activists, and public officials working on alcohol policy. One workshop was titled: “What’s Our Movement’s Name?” In a studio room of the Renaissance, attendees hashed out ideas.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
daily.sevenfifty.com | Tyler Wetherall
Back in 1970, Clausthaler took a punt on launching the first non-alcoholic beer brand in the U.S. After that, O’Doul’s came along in 1990 from Anheuser-Busch, with little of interest happening in between. To say it was a slow start for non-alcoholic beer is an understatement.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
daily.sevenfifty.com | Tyler Wetherall
Xavier Padovani, a partner in the Experimental Group, shared a story to demonstrate the ethos of the Experimental Cocktail Club (ECC)’s back bar. If a customer asks for a vodka and tonic with a big-name vodka—he uses Belvedere as an example—they’ll offer the alternative that they stock with a promise: “If you don’t like it, don’t worry about it. I’ll send someone to the shop to get that Belvedere,” says Padovani. “Very often people are like, ‘Okay, why not?
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
daily.sevenfifty.com | Tyler Wetherall
In May 2024, the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance (USAPA) hosted their annual conference, Alcohol Policy 20, in Arlington, Virginia, gathering hundreds of state and local organizers, researchers, community activists, and public officials working on alcohol policy. One workshop was titled: “What’s Our Movement’s Name?” In a studio room of the Renaissance, attendees hashed out ideas.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
pw.org | Tyler Wetherall
In our Craft Capsule series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 216. In the mesmerizing 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin, nine-year-old Hushpuppy, living in a bayou community called the Bathtub, punches her father in the chest during a fight. A sonic boom strikes—is it thunder? Then her dad collapses, gripped in a seizure.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
pw.org | Tyler Wetherall
In our Craft Capsule series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 215. There is an unexpected transformation at the heart of my debut novel, Amphibian (Ig Publishing, 2024). It appeared accidentally while I was writing, but then the metaphor grew and swallowed the book whole. As this fabulist thread crept onto the page, I found myself asking: What purpose does it serve? Or, the more layered question, is it real?
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
pw.org | Tyler Wetherall
In our Craft Capsule series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 214. It was one of those calls you never forget: A Hollywood producer wants to talk to you about your book—and not just any producer, but Lynda Obst, who made The Fisher King and Interstellar, who paved the way for women in the industry and practically invented the nineties romcom. On the phone, I was nervous; she was sharp, funny, and deliciously no-nonsense.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Tyler Wetherall
I recently found an item that I assumed was lost to time: My “Snog Log.” Snogging, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, is British slang, common in the 90s, for making out. It’s apt for the type of kissing we do as teens, conjuring the wet slugs of tongues, the mouth wiped on the back of the sleeve. Snogging. It sounds like medieval torture.
