"I started learning a lot about how this business was run. And there was a lot of shadiness," she says. "We were not, you know, that was not a game we could play." The distillery is based in Andersonville, Tennessee.
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.