GETTING UNDER THE SKIN OF GIN

ary Spedding studied microbial chemistry, earning a PhD from the University of Leicester in 1984. His career path then zig-zagged across North America over the next two decades, through a combination of teaching and research positions at the University of Guelph, Buffalo General Hospital, the Siebel Institute, and Alltech. He eventually founded his own company, Brewing & Distilling Analytical Services (BDAS), in Lexington, KY, in 2002. The firm runs chemical analyses of beverage alcohol, helping breweries and distilleries with quality control, as well as several workshops a year in beverage alcohol production. magazine to create the , a peer-reviewed journal for the Society of Distilling Scientists and Technologists.