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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.…