PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA

Seekers Spirits

Seekers Spirits is a craft distillery I helped build, operate, and grow in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The two incidents documented here shared the same underlying problem: by the time failure was detected, the system had no way to catch it earlier.

The postmortems below show what happened, how each incident spread, and what changed.

/0.1
Juniper Contamination
A compromised botanical lot moved through four consecutive batches undetected for 56 days. Detection was accidental. 715 bottles quarantined.
lag 56 days
radius 715 bottles
batches 19–22
/0.2
Cooling System Failure
Thermal drift of 1–2°C per hour developed across a 12-hour run. Display-only sensors retained no data. The failure was reconstructed afterward from a single manual reading.
drift 1–2°C/hr
retained 1 reading
batch 50
GitHub → PostgreSQL database built retrospectively from production records.