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RISE, FALL, AND RALLY

There was a time when women dominated distilling, with female distillers numbering in the tens of thousands — a time when every home could be a distillery. Women have been household brewers and bakers since antiquity, and the introduction of small alembic stills in the 1400s was an artefact evolution in the culinary arts and a transition in the preparation of

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