
Aaron Goldfarb
Writer and Author at Freelance
Now out! DUSTY BOOZE from @abramsbooks. Also: @nytimes, @wsj, @EsquireMag, @VinePair writer-at-large. Beer, whiskey, cocktails, 🍊 hoops
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3 days ago |
vinepair.com | Aaron Goldfarb
It was a chilly Tuesday lunchtime when I sauntered into Wild Turkey Distillery’s tasting room in the Jimmy Russell Visitor’s Center. Expecting to grab a neat pour of the latest Russell’s Reserve Single Rickhouse, a distillery-exclusive single barrel pick, or maybe even the new Wild Turkey 101 8-year-old, I instead noticed most visitors were drinking an Ectocooler-green cocktail. Curious, I saw the small bar had a cocktail menu — and a pretty ambitious one at that.
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2 weeks ago |
vinepair.com | Aaron Goldfarb
He kept popping up on my FYP page on TikTok and my “suggested for you” on Instagram. A thin, middle-aged man with rectangular glasses, often wearing a Penn State hat over his shaggy hair. In a warm but excited voice, he would introduce every one of his reels the same way: “I’m Alan and I’ve had over 2,900 different beers.”As craft beer began to boom in the aughts and 2010s, so emerged the ticker.
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1 month ago |
vinepair.com | Aaron Goldfarb
As people partied like it was 1999, they were almost certainly drinking vodka, which at the time accounted for about a quarter of the spirits market. Craft beer was just on the precipice of booming. The cocktail renaissance was on the horizon, too. The rise of bourbon would be meteoric and significant. But it was tequila that I think, ultimately, would define drinking in the first quarter of the 21st century.
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1 month ago |
vinepair.com | Aaron Goldfarb
April 16, 2009: A landslide in Kyrgyzstan kills 16 people. Bolivian police foil an international plot to assassinate President Evo Morales. And, in Fraserburgh, Scotland, BrewDog provocateurs James Watt and Martin Dickie dress up in penguin costumes to announce the release of the supposed “world’s strongest beer.”If today Watt, Dickie, and BrewDog are seen as lame and out of touch, if not reprehensible, back in 2009 the upstart brewery was on the cutting edge of the industry.
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1 month ago |
vinepair.com | Aaron Goldfarb
A sliding door moment is a seemingly minor event that changes the trajectory of everything. The phrase comes from a mostly forgotten 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow rom-com, “Sliding Doors,” which cleverly depicts the two wildly different paths her life takes depending on whether she catches a train on the London Underground. Though the film was mildly received, the term has transcended its origin and become as much a part of the common vernacular as “saying the quiet part loud” or Groundhog Day.
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