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Inside a Cold War holiday cocktail party

How to appreciate "How To Appreciate Wine"

Hurtling towards the CPG singularity, one hard seltzer at a time

"I don't think it's going to work out for the corporation at this particular shop."

The $2 billion driving range/sports bar chain where work sounds like hell

Have you ever seen non-alcoholic spirits... ON WEED?!

[Bonus pod] The end of craft brewing's "movement" moment

"Only one piece has to break and then everything shuts down."

The 2021 Bad Holiday Gift Guide for Heavy-Drinking Frenemies™

WAP (Whipped Alcoholic Potables)

[Bonus pod] Here's an idea: hard milk

Reading, drinking, and reading *about* drinking

Imagine if all your favorite drinks had butts

Here's an idea: hard milk

brb, pitching non-alcoholic hard seltzer to the stupidest venture capitalists I can find

"I'm 'old man screaming at cloud' when it comes to hard seltzer"

The end of craft brewing's "movement" moment

Flipping curly-fry vodka on eBay, call that Arby-trage

What's the best booze (ish) book you've read lately?

"They're lowering the floor": inside the bargaining battle at the country's biggest contract brewer

Did you guys know they make RumChata coffee creamer these days?

"Anybody that partners with the machine has this really naive way of thinking"

Selling out the indie scene

State of the Boozeletter™: launch recap edition

Everything I've learned about Kelsey Grammer’s vaguely Christian craft beer brand

Sell that red, get that bread, I guess

The country's biggest bourbon strike in years just ended. Now what?

Has Elon Musk ever heard of hard seltzer?

What can craft beer workers do about bad brewery bosses?

The High Life hat’s clown-show past

Before Carlos Brito captured all the beer biz's infinity stones

"When Charleston chefs were out cooking, it was a deliberate thing: 'this is going to be our drink.'"

Vaporware, but make it hard seltzer

Do Zoomers really want Ziploc bags full of fruity booze?

Which American city is the most overrun by bachelor and bachelorette parties?

“The children are drinking so much ranch water their little tummies can't handle any more beer.”

I wrote a craft beer cringepost, and I liked it

Big Beer's disturbing, deeply American vision of work and leisure

"i invited him to sample a rare wine down in my family vault where i will brick him in"

[Bonus pod] The pseudoscientific spectacle of @BangEnergy.CEO

A big announcement from your favorite boozeletter

The pseudoscientific spectacle of @BangEnergy.CEO

Striking against "corporate greed" at Kentucky's biggest bourbon distillery

[Bonus pod] The sinister politics of pouring beers for dead troops

On the power of strangers

The sinister politics of pouring beers for dead troops

[Bonus pod] How the Twin Cities became a hotbed for craft beverage unionizing

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THREAD: What's the worst hard seltzer you've ever had?

How the Twin Cities became a hotbed for craft beverage unionizing

[Bonus pod] The culture wars come for Chardonnay

The culture wars come for Chardonnay

Bonus pod - So A Republican Walks into a Brewery...

THREAD: Who should the next Fingers interview be?

So a Republican walks into a brewery...

THREAD: Ask not what you can do for Fingers, but what Fingers can do for you

"I want to capture the personal stories coming from people who experienced these places"

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Inside BrewDog's $100mm+ cash machine

The energy drink-to-hard seltzer pipeline

The Summer of Loko (bonus pod)

Law and (drink) order

"The first dive bar you go into is the definition of a dive bar, and everyone goes into a different dive bar first"

Fellas, is it gay to drink Smirnoff Ice... in 2011?

The Summer of Loko

Bonus pod - Craft Beer's "99% Asshole-Free" Myth

Craft beer's "99% asshole-free" myth

"They were dumping money into these events, and every time they did, boycotters would show up."

Booze dynasties, now in podcast form

“My boyfriend loved it and especially loved the real bullet.”

Media industry still butt; bar-tab Venmo still deficient

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Amazon's embarrassing union-busting website, annotated

"Value" lager vs. the student-debt crisis

Budweiser's "super-calculated" Super Bowl sidestep

On "taking back" breweries

"In the face of commodity, we've replaced all of the nuance of goods with marketing."

THREAD: What's the most insane energy drink brand you've ever seen?

I'm here for the Bang bang

Hey White Claw, look how easy it is to disavow far-right extremism!

The "Tea-KO" memed 'round the world