Certainly, Lix knows what he's getting into. The former president of a marketing and management-consulting firm in Connecticut has also started and sold a business. He's a visiting assistant professor ...

A display of Cleveland Underground whiskey, which is a bourbon whiskey finished with black cherry wood made by Cleveland Whiskey, in Cleveland. Recently, some distillers, such as Cleveland Whiskey, ...

Judges at the 11th Denver International Spirits Competition last April awarded a silver medal to the whiskey made by a fledgling Port Huron business called Renaissance Man Co. That wasn't unusual.

THE UPSTART Lix and his still, which he uses to tinker with his recipes. His patented pressure-aging tank? That doesn’t get photographed.. Greg Miller You may have noticed that most of the new breed ...