Barham interviewed wine makers and brewers around Taiwan soon after arriving here, including the makers of Hungluh Chiew, born of the pure mountain waters of Yilan, of Shaohsing Chiew, from the eminent Puli Brewery, and of robust millet wines homegrown and homebrewed in Aboriginal villages.
熱愛啤酒的蘭森，來台灣後也勤於走訪各地的酒莊與釀酒人，包括宜蘭好山好水釀造的紅露酒、埔里酒廠赫赫有名的紹興酒，也在部落裡嚐到原住民朋友自種自釀的醇厚小米酒。