This young gentleman grew up on the mean streets of Lake Elsinore, California, a small lake town hidden in the plateau somewhere between San Diego and Los Angeles. Wise_Guise grew up with a natural curiosity for all things natural, bizarre and original. At the tender age of nine, he was ripped up by the roots and transplanted into the formidable state of Utah.
Over the ensuing decade and a half, his interests varied widely and wildly, including forays into cooking, construction, automotive technology, writing, music and the metaphysical and occult. He can be found discussing the potentials of quantum mechanics or politics just as easily as he can be seen cooking with foreign spices or arguing about the needless nature of musical genre.
In late 2007, Wise_Guise was co-opted into the realm of blogging by one Danithius to engage in the dangerous and thankless act of fighting Big Soda and the amassed sugar interests. He had noticed Wise_Guise’s distrust and distaste for corporatization, and rabid antiestablishmentarianism, and thought he would be a good asset to the cause. Time will tell.
To this day he remains an humbly accomplished cook, writer, mechanic, and general man of all things handy, and casually writes off the occasional soda-sticky death threat.
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Danithius* was born in a quaint little town on Michigan’s lower peninsula. (Or the LP, as the street urchins call it). Soon thanks to the divorce of his parents he began a nomadic lifestyle that continues to rouse an insatiable wander-lust to this very day.
When Danithius was about eight years old when he developed a peculiar interest in all things culinary, and he began regularly checking out cookbooks from the library. This obsession with food and drink followed him through his formative years, leading him to pursue a career as a cook at a local Italian restaurant, starting at the age of 15. He continued to pursue his passion through personal study and by working as a chef at other restaurants through his adult years, as well as his many freelance culinary studies in various parts of the US and Japan.
Sometime in 2007, Danithius realized that throughout his neverending quest to find new flavors in food, he always found himself hunting for new and original drinks with which to wash them down. This, combined with a concern for natural nutrition and a general distrust of large corporations (most likely stemming from Danithius’ abduction and subsequent six-month captivity at a radical militant hippie compound), set the foundation for the idea of Better Libations.
Soon after starting Better Libations Danithius enlisted the help of fellow drink-enthusiast and long-time friend “Wise_Guise”* to co-command the Beverage Revolution.
Viva la Revolucion!
*Pseudonyms are employed for all Better Libations contributors in order to protect them from inevitable harassment, death threats, and assassination attempts by agents of certain large soda companies.
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