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.
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Juniper Contamination
A compromised botanical lot moved through four consecutive batches undetected for 56 days. Detection was accidental. 715 bottles quarantined.
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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.
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PostgreSQL database built retrospectively from production records.