About
Harbor & Rye distills a small rye in Kaohsiung and sells most of it within a day's drive of the water. The house is more interested in rooms and frequencies than in cocktail trends.
This season it took a quiet coastal radio band and put the summer on it: a pour, a song, and the salt.
Clips and notes
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The band, from the pier
Wind, then a thin tune from a portable radio, then the sound of a pour. The camera never leaves the table: two bottles, a tin cup, rope. A voice says the frequency once, slowly, and does not repeat it as a slogan.
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Why there is no stream
Harbor & Rye answers the obvious question in one page. A stream would turn a place into a file. The frequency is short, local, and slightly unreliable, which is the point. If you are not near the water, you are not the audience this week.
Salt on the glass
The note leads with humidity and the hour. Rye is the second paragraph. It pairs the pour with nothing you can buy in the same post — only with the radio, if you can find it.