Dram in the Desert – Ben Wilder, Sonoran Desert Extraordinaire
What happens when you sit a passionate Tucsonan (desert ecologist) down in a room with a crew from David Attenborough’s Green Planet to get ideas for a show episode? Four years of work shooting all the things that make the Sonoran desert special resulting in an episode called Desert Worlds that aired on the BBC. Our very own Stephen Paul interviewed Ben to learn more about the work he does with Next Generation of Sonoran Desert Researchers (N-Gen), h
What are the different types of whiskey?
Without getting too far into the weeds on every single type of whiskey out there, especially considering that a new style pops up all the time these days, we put together a primer on the most common styles out there and a little background on what the base requirements are to make any whiskey. The Basics How do you get sugar from grain? In order to produce alcohol, you need sugar. The sugar can come from any source. You feed that sugar to yeast, and the ye