Koval is our neighborhood distillery; located on the corner of Winona and Ravenswood they are less than a mile from our house, and a block from where I used to live in the pre-California days. For B’s birthday Chelsea and Lee gave us two tickets for Koval’s tour and whiskey tasting class. And boy howdy did we taste whiskeys (and learn about them! it was educational, i swear!) About 15 in all, plus a few liqueurs thrown in at the end. At about .75 cl pours each, that worked out to around two and a half shots shots. They were consumed over the course of a two hour class, but on an empty stomach (the 6pm class time is either the best happy hour ever or the worst plan ever) and some of the white whiskeys were as high as 125 proof. I wish i’d photographed the beautiful copper still, but i did manage to hold the camera steady enough for these: