One thing bothered me...
...and that was the mysterious placement of the Wonk's "good friend" Helena's new commercial job, in an article about his good friend Bryan Davis (he of the magic light, atomic powered super fast aging scheme) of Lost Spirits.
I'll try to tie it together.
1. Lost Spirits seems a loser from the get go. From calling a tossed-in banana peel as "dunder", to magic light treated wood, and to a unique mega-sized oak barrel still (which quickly and predictably developed a fungal infection and had to be destroyed).
2. Apparently based on a well funded private financial relationship, Lost Spirits then created his next time machine, called by the Wonk "..
.A self-contained reactor, the size of small SUV, delivered to distilleries, who will lease it for a monthly fee.".
Yes, he did use the word "reactor". The formal name of this mad invention: Thea One reactor, (Targeted Hyper-Esterification Aging). Good grief. What with Star Wars, good timing, eh?
3. In the same article he reveals that ".
.In occasional conversations with Bryan during these past few months, I learned that operations had moved to a new undisclosed location (I’m picturing the Bat Cave here)".
4. It also turns out that in roughly the same time frame a new distillery called "Rational Spirits - Reinventing Rum" came into being far from LS's old California digs, in Charleston.
Now it all makes sense:
Lost Spirits pretty much stops making much spirit, and turns their attention to their new magic aging "reactor", to be available for "licensing". At the same time a brand new distillery is organized in early 2015 and - surprise! - is the very first "licensee". Wow, I say!
On August 16th a few things happen. The "new" operation - Rational Spirits - announces that Tiare is their new Brand Ambassador. Keep in mind that Tiare had already pushed Lost Spirit's earlier products.
And the very next month, Tiare posts another BJ blog entry about the brand new, new make "Santeria" made by the new Rational Spirits.
http://www.amountainofcrushedice.com/?p=22524
The article is more than complimentary. You could hear Rational's orgasm in Florida. But hey, no matter that this was her new employer's product, no matter that she didn't reveal this, nope, she just loooooooved the super strong product that featured LS-like quasi-dunder fermentation, and the use of the ostensibly licensed Thea time/travel machine.
Does that all make sense?
Well in a twisted and incestuous way, yes why yes indeed. Everyone seems to know everybody and it's just one big circle jerk - all over yet another self taught, mad scientist creation that has yet to be proven.
Give this guy another few years and he'll be running for the Republican presidency in 2020. For now, he'll have to defer to Trump...
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http://www.amountainofcrushedice.com/?p=22524
http://cocktailwonk.com/2015/08/lost-sp ... inent.html
http://www.rationalspirits.com/ (a non-website)
