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Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out
Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out (4 Formats) ›
By Josh Noel
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Published Jun 2018

In 2011 Goose Island, a family-owned Chicago brewpub, was sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the biggest beer company in the world. The sale forced the craft beer industry to reckon with its growing mainstream appeal and a popularity few envisioned. Anheuser-Busch InBev went on to buy nine more American craft breweries, each sale sparking questions anew. With Goose Island as its flagship brand, Anheuser-Busch InBev stood poised to the become the largest producer of craft beer in the United States, leaving the industry's original innovators to grapple with the transition from scrappy underdog to mainstream, co-opted sensation.
Malort
Malort (3 Formats) ›
By Josh Noel
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Published Sep 2024

“As I am someone who has grown to actually like Malört, you may doubt my taste. But Josh Noel’s exploration of this most maligned spirit is funny, fascinating, and surprisingly delicious.” —John Hodgman, comedian and author of Medallion Status

Malört may be the worst thing you’ll ever taste.
Known primarily for its intense bitterness, the infamous Chicago liqueur has been compared to “a forest fire, if the forest was made of earwax.” Yet lurking in the horror and the mockery lies the truth of Malört: we keep going back for more. For nearly a hundred years, we’ve gone back.
Jeppson’s Malört could have died a hundred deaths in that time. Its survival wasn’t always a given. It also was no accident. There was one man’s dogged persistence. One woman’s patience and dedication. There were cultural shifts and fortunate timing that helped transform a drink rooted in centuries-old Swedish tradition into the American sensation it is today.
Malört is a story of love, relationships, and how one generation finds meaning where generations before did not. Such transformations happen in art, in history, and in food, and it happened to Jeppson’s Malört.
Author and beer expert Josh Noel unpacks a uniquely American tale, equal parts culture, business, and personal relationships—involving secret love, federal prison, a David vs. Goliath court battle, and, ultimately, the 2018 sale of Jeppson’s Malört, which made Pat Gabelick, a 75-year-old Chicago woman who spent much of her life as a legal secretary, into an unlikely millionaire.
Malört isn’t just the story of one brazen liquor—it is the story of modern tastes and cultural shifts.