I regularly have the conversation about bringing a new product to the Las Vegas market and can I help them. The best advice I could give anyone for years was to skip Las Vegas and Nevada and go straight to Colorado. That may not be the advice I give soon. In 2016 Colorado passed Senate Bill 197. Since prohibition, Colorado only allowed one full-strength alcohol license per licensee, which effectively kept any local chains like Twins and Spec’s that dominate the Texas landscape or the Bevmo’s of California from rising in Colorado and now has barred national competition like Total […]
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The Man of a PowerfulThirst is going to WhiskyFest San Francisco
Another first for PowerfulThirst.com. Our very first media credentials for an out of state event, WhiskyFest 2015 San Francisco. WhiskyFest is one of my favorite events of the year. They get great speakers and attendees like the Eddie and Jimmy Russell of Wild Turkey and Julian and Preston Van Winkle of Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery. In total there will be 375 whiskies to taste. Unfortunately this year’s event in San Francisco is already sold out. Next year they expand to 4 cities with Washington, D.C. joining, Chicago, New York and San Francisco. Time to start setting the schedule. With only 4 hours to work the entire […]
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If you have never seen any of the Fog and Smog films, you are welcome. These guys were introduced to me by Ryan Pastorek who is the same gentleman that introduced me to The Daily Pint, to which I am eternally grateful. Fog and Smog lampoon, via music video, pop culture targets. At least the bar industry has risen to the hight of being lampooned. Now for people in the industry it is easy to get defensive about these things, but that really does not do justice to what you see here. There is a perception by many in the […]