Friday Links: Five Wives Follow Up, Pinnacle Belongs to Beam, An Odd Cocktail

This weeks Friday Links include some follow up to our Five Wives post, Beam finalizing the purchase of the Pinnacle vodka brand, an odd cocktail (with a not-so-odd infusion you might also like), and Seattle’s new liquor laws. Five Wives Follow Up On our last report, Five Wives was contemplating a First Amendment law suit. Since then, Boise Weekly reports that the Idaho State Liquor Division would be willing to reconsider their decision through an

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Idaho and Five Wives Vodka

Ogden’s Own Distillery, based in Ogden Utah, has been making headlines with it’s Five Wives Vodka. The vodka has been sold in Utah, a state heavily associated with Mormonism, for some time. When Ogden’s Own Distillery decided to bring the vodka to neighboring Idaho, things started to break down. Howard Wasserstein, deputy director of the Liquor Division, stated in a letter that Five Wives was denied distribution in Idaho because the name would be offensive

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