Tito’s Handmade Vodka: A Beveridge Family Tradition

by Ari Weinzweig

Twenty years ago there were no legal distilleries in the entire state of Texas. Not until a young geophysicist named Tito Beveridge (that’s not a made up name!) was at a loss as to what to give his friends for Christmas that year. Tito recalled his uncle’s habanero-flavored vodka, that he tasted a year earlier at a watermelon thump in Luling Texas. After handing out the case of hand-made peppered spirit to his closest friends (for which …