EPISODE · Mar 14, 2025 · 55 MIN
FULL VIDEO of 339: A Good Drink: In Pursuit of Sustainable Spirits—w/ Shanna Farrell, author
from Reversing Climate Change · host Ross Kenyon
This is bonus video content for paid subscribers of Reversing Climate Change. For $5/month, you can get ad-free shows, bonus content, and more as the program develops. If you love the show, will you please become a paid subscriber here? Thank you!It's often hard to know how sustainable or ethical an alcoholic drink is. Very little disclosure is required on most labels, and many of the recipes are proprietary. What is a conscientious drinker to do?Shanna Farrell wrote A Good Drink: In Search of Sustainable Spirits in order to answer this exact question.She and host Ross Kenyon discuss the strange world of amaros (or "amari" if you're really going for it!), whiskey, agave, and gin, and try to figure out how to even begin approaching this difficult consumptive choice.N.B. If you really want to nerd out on amaro taxonomy, Brad Thomas Parsons's books on amaro and bitters are both quite useful; linked below.ResourcesBecome a paid subscriber of Reversing Climate ChangeA Good Drink: In Search of Sustainable Spirits by Shanna FarrellShanna Farrell's websiteAmaro: The Spirited World of Bittersweet, Herbal Liqueurs by Brad Thomas ParsonsCrushed: How A Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink by Brian FreedmanFollow the Reversing Climate Change podcast on LinkedIn
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