I looked at your bio and I saw the University of Berlin. Can you say the name of it again? Humboldt, Wumbot Universitaten. It was a wonderful place to teach. But you stop doing it. You stop teaching. And so we thought, well, maybe we could work together. We could start a family business. We could live where we want. We could be close to family. Maybe all those things are worth changing our path. And they were.
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.