Drink

The Craft

During a recent visit to Denver, I was able to take a tour of a local distillery. It was better then a typical walkabout with a concluding tasting. They sat us down in a small classroom and explained the ingredients, the terminology, the process, and the care that goes into every bottle of the beverages.

I was fascinated. God created a world where grain, water, yeast and heat can be combined in a way that creates an amazingly complex and varied experience in a small glass.

Humans have been tinkering with the proportions of the above ingredients and time for thousands of years to get to where we currently are in present expression of beverages. Every time I taste something amazing I think about that process and feel as though I am participating in the co-creation of image bearing humans with their God.

God has created the ingredients, the chemical relationships, and the laws of earth. Humans, reflecting bits of God's creativity, experiment and craft until they discover something great. A desirable glass of anything is evidence of that co-creation.