American Spirit

Clear Creek Distillery's Steve McCarthy is a self-ordained evangelist for domestic eau-de-vie

Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2001

It's the Platonic ideal of a pear, a dazzling concentration of its aromas and flavors. Steve McCarthy debuted his distinctive "Williams" pear brandy back in 1985, and since then he has notched.....

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