Bureaucrats Have The Best Taste In Everything

One of the challenges facing anyone serious about making drinks in Ohio is our byzantine liquor laws which still date from prohibition. The state tightly controls and owns the sale of all booze over 20% in Ohio, and the state also decides what products the state will be carrying and which products it will not. This article is a particularly good summary of what happens:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-06-18/five-wives-vodka-ban-liquor-alcohol-laws-abc-control/55674928/1

If you are looking for a bottle of Pinnacle or Three Olives ANYTHING, you will have no trouble finding Mountain Dew, Fruit Loop, Whipped, and every other chemically enhanced mouthwash. Pinnacle/3 Olives=Nickelback. Right now, strega, amaro, calvados, most rye whiskey, a lot of good bourbon, dutch gin, aquavit, yellow chartreuse, and a myriad other wonderful things are found only across state lines.