Stories
Field notes: processes, ingredients, origins and people.
2026
2025
MunichEssay
The Yeast That Was Already Home
How a wild organism from a South American forest ended up defining German beer — and what that has to do with a Panama Geisha.
Munich
Munich, September 2025
Oktoberfest, drinktec, and a visit to the yeast collection at Weihenstephan.
The Flores Blancas shoot
The night we photographed Flores Blancas
Ricardo Bremner turned up with the camera. We finished around five, and he took a couple of bottles for his people.
Cuzco
A chichería in Cuzco
The same drink told by other people: an afternoon in an Andean chichería, with the chalkboard, the barrel and the big glass.
San Juan, Veraguas
A cane mill in San Juan
The afternoon we watched cane juice boil until it sets, and the four different things that come out of the same cane.
2024
Santa Fe, Veraguas
A sunrise at the Santa Fe apiary
Marcelino and I went up to check the nectar flow. The first photograph is from 6:44.
Santa Fe, Veraguas
An afternoon of cacao at Finca El Salto
The afternoon before the sunrise at the apiary. A pod opened with a machete on the forest floor, and the same fruit in two tenses.
Santa Fe, Veraguas
The waterfall the farm is named after
The same afternoon as the cacao, twenty minutes into the hills: the forest, the pool, the valley and the fall.
Santa Fe, Veraguas
The wine that ferments inside the palm
Some ferments are taken out and fermented elsewhere. Not this one: the palm is the vessel, and it is milked twice a day for weeks.
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