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Noah Rothbaum

Noah Rothbaum

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Jul 27, 2026

23:19
I was hanging with the wrong people.
23:20
Maybe.
23:21
And this is their single barrel that we're drinking, which you can visit their distillery in Williamsburg.
23:26
We're talking about enforcement.
23:27
I mean I think one of the – I mean you're absolutely right.
23:30
Enforcement prohibition was a mess.
23:33
One of my favorite facts that I discovered I think was for when I was reading my new book, The Whiskey Bible, was that Winston Churchill before he was prime minister of – United Kingdom, he was in charge of essentially like the Royal Navy in the Caribbean.

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37:44
This whole conversation we've talked about the appeal.
17:15
That's right
17:16
... them away.
17:16
It's all in the book.
17:17
If you, if you, if you can't remember or you wanna look it up, it's in there, right? You got your cheat sheets.
17:23
Each chapter is divided up by different type of whiskey.
17:25
At the beginning, there's like a cheat sheet about what makes each one u- You know, what, what are the regulations and also how it differs from other whiskeys.
17:34
But then the other hard part [laughs] was I thought when Workman came to me, my publisher, in 2020, the beginning of the year, they were like, "Oh, like, you know, we, we have The Wine Bible, which is indispensable rec- you know, uh, indispensable, uh, reference book, right, for, for wine lovers around the world.

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79:13
[laughs]

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