by: Hoke Harden
It's a fascinating question, one that is often asked---right behind the unanswerable “What’s your favorite spirit?”---and one that requires a little thinking: If you had to limit your available spirits to one case, 12 bottles, which 12 would you choose?
The answers, it turns out, are always different. And the choices reveal much about the people making them.
The ‘rules’ were simple: Only 12 bottles, any spirits you wish,
and they don’t have to include bitters (they’re small, so they’ll fit in
to your case anyway, and we didn’t want to make it too difficult). You