The Curiosity team compared their formation to the fractionation that occurred in the old colonial method of making apple jack liquor.

BBC: Cosmic coincidence on the road to Glenelg

Ms. BUFORD: Well, I stay above the bar that--the guy that owns this bar owns the bar where I live above, and we are kind of supplying the liquor over here, so I'm staying over there, making sure they get their liquor here.

NPR: A New Orleans Native, Determined to Stay

As many new distillers are quick to point out, the presently sparse U.S. spirits-making landscape--with a relative handful of large whiskey distilleries plus a few big rectifiers making neutral spirits for white liquor--is a post-Prohibition phenomenon, a historical fluke.

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His point was that making money for shareholders of a liquor company comes up short when the big ledger is finally calculated.

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