Meanwhile, out on the sidewalk, a homeless man slugs down a can of malt liquor.

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Herring, who has battled paranoid schizophrenia mostly by, as the SI story points out, drinking malt liquor and other alcohol, is not accused of causing her death. (Instead, a man who once served time for rape was accused Jan. 14 of murdering her.) However, Herring was arrested in connection with the case.

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To achieve that "particular quality, " most craft distillers employ variations on small-batch pot stills, the kind of homey, copper kettle--looking devices you find at single-malt scotch distilleries, as opposed to the giant, continuous-process column stills of the big-volume liquor brands.

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