As many new distillers are quick to point out, the presently sparse U.S. spirits-making landscape--with a relative handful of large whiskey distilleries plus a few big rectifiers making neutral spirits for white liquor--is a post-Prohibition phenomenon, a historical fluke.

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On every Fourth of July he and the grown-ups would release these gossamer spirits, blue, white and red.

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And in June, Diageo announced it was teaming up with another spirits firm, Shui Jing Fang, to launch Shanghai White vodka in Hong Kong.

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The ONS said that the spirits drunk by younger people were reflected with the addition of white rum from off-licences, but some sales of champagne have been withdrawn because the amount of bubbly drunk continues to fall.

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At another White Castle, in downtown Columbus, opinions varied among the staff on the wisdom of adding spirits to the menu.

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