So I'm curious, for people who maybe don't even drink or have no interest in alcohol, why is it important to understand the way alcohol is made?

Well, organic chemistry is extraordinarily important for everything, right? is chemistry is something that you encounter every single day and everything that you do.

I think the story of what we're doing gets as much attention as it does, not because of what

we did to booze per se, because I think it's a really interesting story of maybe the idea of what does it mean to be a chemist who can be one.

What does it mean to be in anything and who can be one?

And when you're in the 21st century and you have access to Google and you have access to basically everything

anyone knows. How does that change society or how does that change what can or

can't be done now? I think that's the question that's most interesting about

the whole thing when you zoom out to 10,000 feet. Hi, I'm Cody Gough from the award-winning Curiosity.com.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today we're going to explore the limits of what you can teach yourself how to do.

And we'll learn about the science of alcoholic beverages.

Every week we explore what we don't know because curiosity makes you smarter.

This is the Curiosity Podcast. My guest today is inspiring and fascinating.

Brian Davis owns and runs a distillery in Los Angeles,

but it's not your typical distillery. He has found a way to change

the chemical properties of rum to age it 20 years in just six days. And he

taught himself the science behind how to do it.

Even if you've never drank a drop of alcohol in your life,

today's episode isn't so much about what Brian does

as it is about how he got to where he is today.

Stick around to learn about history, organic chemistry, and business skills

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