For our second annual Food & Wine Drinks Innovators of the Year, we combed the ranks of brewers, winemakers, and distillers to single out the people changing the way we drink.
We review Tamworth Dunce Whiskey, created as a way to troll an industry Tamworth Distilling's owner feels is saturated by sourced whiskey with overly produced branding.
Steven Grasse, owner of Philadelphia's Quaker City Mercantile and New Hampshire's Tamworth Distilling, has been recognized by Food & Wine as one of the 2023 Drinks Innovators of the Year. Grasse, the advertising executive who invented the brands Hendrick's Gin in 1999 and later developed Sailor Jerry Rum, drew a lot of attention last year with the release of the small-batch distillery's Crab Trapper whiskey, which is infused with boiled green crab, an invasive species.
A new bourbon whiskey has come to market, this from Steven Grasse, the man behind Tamworth Distilling’s Crab Trapper and brands Hendrick’s Gin and Sailor Jerry Rum.