Small-Batch Aquavit Is Here (and it's gooooood)

San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour · Feb 24, 2023 · 1h 17m

During the pandemic, actor Matthew Arkin got a call from his dad, Alan Arkin. "My dad says, 'Hey, you know you can make aquavit at home?'" Matthew explains, sipping a damn delicious aquavit tonic in the SDM conference room. Matthew's response was, essentially, "Uh, thanks, dad." In Scandinavia, aquavit (the word means water of life) is everything. There are over 200 songs dedicated to it. In the U.S., it's mostly known as the stuff they drink in Scandinavia—a bracing blast of northern booze that helps wash down the pickled herring. A couple weeks went by and Matthew's dad called again. He…