Next bar craze: Craft spirits?

[zstyles]

PORTLAND, Ore. - Philadelphia has already staked its claim as a player in the national craft beer movement, with dozens of local brewers producing top-notch beer.

Could the newest wave in artisan drink rolling our way from the West Coast - the craft spirit movement - be the next obsession to slake Philly's thirst with potent shots of white corn "Shine" and "Petty's Island Rum"?

So who will be the first in Tulsa to jump on this?

http://www.philly.com/philly/restaurants/119582334.html?cmpid=15585797#ixzz1JF56kZ5R

[dbacks fan]

PORTLAND, Ore. - Philadelphia has already staked its claim as a player in the national craft beer movement, with dozens of local brewers producing top-notch beer.

Could the newest wave in artisan drink rolling our way from the West Coast - the craft spirit movement - be the next obsession to slake Philly's thirst with potent shots of white corn "Shine" and "Petty's Island Rum"?

So who will be the first in Tulsa to jump on this?

http://www.philly.com/philly/restaurants/119582334.html?cmpid=15585797#ixzz1JF56kZ5R

With OK's liquor laws and the monopoly of the three distributors?

[brunoflipper]

eric marshall has toyed with the idea for a couple of years...
he's talked with a buddy of his that is a distiller...