Keeping It 100 With Bonded Whiskey

Hazmat bourbons are enjoying their 15 minutes at 150 proof. It's reminding me why I loved Bottled in Bond.

The American whiskey industry is taking cues from an unusually distant relative in recent years: the hot sauce industry. While hot sauce pushes the Scoville scale higher, American whiskey seems to be doing the same with the ABV.

The recent “Hazmat” trend has pushed “proof” — a scale from zero to 200 that determines alcohol content by volume — way beyond …