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Where Are the Unicorns of the Craft Whiskey Boom?
Through nearly the entirety of the twentieth century, whiskey markets were dominated by relatively few large businesses, often owned as subsidiaries of global beverage holding companies—the conglomerates. This began to change in the first decades of the twenty-first century, when reforms in state laws, federal regulations, and tax policy made it easier for smaller businesses…
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Towards a Sociology of American Whiskey
Towards a Sociology of American Whiskey The contents of this post have been removed and the title changed (September 2) to protect the integrity of the double-blind peer-review process. Originally published on August 30, the post described a working draft of an article intended for peer review and included an embedded PDF of the manuscript.…
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Dispatches from a World of Uncertain Veracity
Welcome to my little piece of real estate on the World Wide Web. I am no stranger to publishing dispatches on the internet. From 2009 to 2015, I maintained a blog—also published under a domain based on my name, Kevin-Goodman.com—that achieved a considerable readership, averaging around 500 daily visitors and occasionally peaking at more than 2,000.…