Imagine this – you are at a bar and you want to compare some whiskies side-by-side. The problem is, the bartender isn’t the most attentive in the world, leaving you wondering if you’ll ever actually get that flight you ordered 15 minutes ago. One possible solution? Self-service technology in the form of the new SpiritStation.

The SpiritStation, which we learned about from Whisky Advocate, follows in the model of self-dispensing wine machines which are becoming more common in wine bars around the country. Napa Technology, developer of the WineStation, first introduced this type of dispensing technology over a decade ago.…