Once again science confirms what barstool wisdom has taught us all along: we evolved with the taste for alcohol, and we’ve been doing it for millions of years. Researchers in Gainesville, Florida, have been able to detect in our ancestral lineage where the ability to product the enzyme to break down alcohol first appeared in our bodies. [AZ Daily Sun]

Elsewhere in science news, researchers at Brown and Yale have been awarded a grant to determine how memory serves a role in alcohol preference and how certain parts of the brain help to block alcohol’s negative effects. [Brown Daily Herald]

Brown-Forman reports 2nd quarter growth thanks to sales of Jack Daniel’s Honey and overseas growth, offsetting losses in other areas. [CNBC]

A. Smith Bowman Distillery has announced a new limited edition vanilla bean-infused whiskey. Aged a total of seven years and six months in the barrel, it is bottled at 90 proof. It’s currently on sale in very limited quantities, mostly available only in Virginia at a suggested retail price of $70. [A. Smith Bowman]

The Telegraph has published a quiz for readers to test their knowledge on which wines contain the most alcohol by volume. The quiz was constructed in response to a public health official warning that people “have no idea how much alcohol they’re drinking.” [Telegraph UK]

A beer recently sold for $500,000 on eBay. The St. Louis Post Dispatch looks into the details behind the auction, and how exactly the lucky winner might be paying for this bottle. [St Louis Post]

Everyone’s favorite E! news correspondent has figured out the solution to leftover wine for moms craving just a single glass and not a whole bottle. Perhaps you’ve seen the billboards. [People]

And finally today, for those wishing to smell like single malt wherever they may go, textile developers have “hand crafted” a fabric to permanently smell like whiskey. There are a number of scenarios in which this product could become problematic, but we’re glad the capability to forever smell of peat and smoke now exists.  [BBC News]

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