The first time I encountered Baijiu (“bye-joe”), the Chinese spirit distilled from sorghum, was in bartender Joseph Brooke’s Mid-City home bar, the Barage. He kept it on his back shelf and dusted it ...

Baijiu, literally “white spirits” in Mandarin, is a category of at least a dozen traditional Chinese grain spirits. Baijiu styles are regional in origin, and differ greatly in terms of aesthetic ...