Tonic #4

Paul Wade tells the story of moonshine running in North Carolina and the multi-million-dollar sport it spawned. A real-life case of people fighting the law and the people winning.

The former Director of the British Guild of Beer Writers, Jacopo Mazzeo, turns his attention to wine, taking us on a journey back to the roots of Brazilian wine.

Peru and Chile duke it out over a drink in Shafik Meghji's piece Pisco's at Dawn, and award-winning drinks writer Will Hawkes is caught Czeching-out the voracity of global beer trends.

We also hear from James Ruddy who visits The Angel of Corbridge Inn, a property that can trace its history back to 1569. From a traditional English boozer we head to Botswana via Tokyo for more from the beer world courtesy of Sue Watt and Rob Goss.

Kate Wickers heads to Laos, and I will leave her to tell you how she came face-to-face with a pickled elephant penis in a jar!

We hit the cashew trail in Goa with Aatish Nath to learn about the art of Feni. Rudolf Abraham takes us to Slovenia to sample the fruit spirit žganje. Our editor Juliet Rix gets to the guts of vegan wine, and we end our innings with Graham Coster and cricket.