Alcohol Flavors: Spirits of a New Year

Now that the holidays are over and we’ve all watched “The Christmas Carol” so many times that we can’t remember (or was that because of the rum egg nog?), I can’t help associating those “spirits” of past, present, and future with this month’s Ingredients section on alcohol flavors.

To help me write this column, I called upon their assistance as ghost consultants. And, since Scrooge had already been redeemed and they weren’t doing all that much anyway, they eagerly obliged. Especially after they l…