Vodka or Tequila?

Last week, the Real Simple food team had a whiskey tasting in the office hosted by the great grandniece of Jack Daniel. (Grand=2 greats the publicist explained to me. I'm still not clear on the genealogy even after looking it up.) As she walked us through the company's various spirits, a few of us were surprised to hear that more than 20% of Jack Daniel's Black Label whiskey was consumed by women. It seems I've been laboring under the outdated stereotype that women don't really consume "brown...