Sonat Birnecker Hart on Whiskey

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Scholar and distiller Sonat Birnecker Hart of the Koval Distillery talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her career move from academia to whiskey-making. She explains that the heart is the key to great flavor--when making whiskey, and when making the right choices in life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.5	Today is September 6, 2022 and my guest is Sonnet, Beernick, or Heart, the co-founder of the
0:43.9	Coval Distillery in Chicago.
0:46.6	This is one in a very occasional series where I interview someone from the world of business
0:51.0	about what their job is like.
0:53.1	To give us a glimpse of a world new and that otherwise get a glimpse of, I've interviewed
0:57.7	the guy who sold me my car, the woman who cuts my wife's hair, the CEO of legal seafood,
1:03.3	and so on to give you a window into that hidden world.
1:07.0	Sonnet, welcome to econtalk.
1:10.5	Thank you so much.
1:11.5	It's great to be here.
1:12.5	You started your career as an academic, a professor.
1:17.8	What was your field and where did you teach?
1:21.1	Sure, my field was cultural history.
1:25.7	I focused on German and Austrian, in particular, Jewish cultural history from 1890 to 1938 and
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