You go to a grocery store and someone offers you a taste of bourbon. You try it, decide that you like it and buy a bottle.
But how did that friendly person happen to be there with that bottle that was so tempting? And are there any laws governing such things?
I talked to Nick Blandina, owner of Total Tastings Missouri, one of a handful of companies in Missouri that produce these tastings, and it turns out that the people who are offering free alcohol cannot use the words "free alcohol."