Kayta Goyich and Duncan Riffle of Cutler's Artisan Spirits, in the distillery's Santa Barbara tasting room. (Eric Isaacs photo) Though water makes up about 60% of the average person's body, liquor certainly runs in the Cutler family line. As a boy, Ian Cutler heard the stories of how his great-grandfather was a bootlegger during Prohibition. From there, his family kept running different liquor stores, bars and more, until 1985, when changes to California's liquor laws made it harder for smaller businesses like his family's to compete.

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