Whiskey made them sick. So they created a way to combat counterfeits in China

Alex Busarov was living in China in 2013 when he and his friend, Yaroslav ‘Yaz’ Belinskiy, became ill immediately after drinking a few sips of whiskey from a bottle they had bought at a store in Hangzhou. The whiskey, he suspected, was fake. Busarov admits that he never got the whiskey tested in a …