[Bonus pod] The culture wars come for Chardonnay

Today I’ve got an audio read of the Fingers newsletter published 8/30/21, “The culture wars come for Chardonnay.”¹ For the past few bonus pods, I’ve just read the lead essay from a given edition, but this time around I tested out doing the lead essay plus other items, to give it a little bit more of a newsletter feel and a longer runtime, to make it more “worth it” for you to queue up while you’re slugging Madeira and dusting off your Waterford crystal stemware. Or… whatever it is you do when you’re not reading Fingers. None of my business!

The culture wars come for Chardonnay

But seriously: I’m really enjoying experimenting with audio storytelling lately, and production quality aside—I’m still learning!—I hope you’re enjoying listening to them, too. In one of our recent open discussion threads, Friends of Fingers had some great suggestions for how to shape and expand The Fingers Podcast, and more audio reads was one of ‘em. So I’ll be doing these more regularly, plus cooking up some new approaches for your listening pleasure, too. If you have suggestions, please comment on this post:

I’d love to hear from you. But enough about what I want! If you want to hear this bonus pod, you can listen using the player above, or subscribe to The Fingers Podcast on Apple and Spotify to get it, and all future episodes, directly through your preferred podcast app.

PREVIOUS EPISODES OF THE FINGERS PODCAST

• So a Republican walks into a brewery…

• The Summer of Loko

• Dive bars and building community with @PicturesofDives' Brandon Hinke

• Craft Beer’s “99% Asshole-Free” Myth

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📬 Good post alert

David Teicher and 142 others @Aerocles

Put the vaccine in White Claws and we’ll be done with this shit in a month

Ivermectin? More like Bon & Viv-ermectin, amirite?!? (Please clap.)

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🤳Good poster alert

Did you know Fingers is on Instagram? Fingers is on Instagram! Ive been posting stories there casually for the past year, but have lately been ramping up on that sweet, sweet OC (“original content,” in the parlance.)

So if you’re looking for shitposts about the beer business, drinking culture, and the existential crisis of hangovers after 30, follow Fingers today.

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📚 The Fingers Reading Room summer book report

Like books? Want to support Fingers? Shop The Fingers Reading Room! I have a Bookshop store to catalog my personal reading list and give fellow book-lovers a place to shop the titles I’m reading.² In the future, I’ll be publishing interviews with authors who have written some of the books you’ll find here, as I’ve already done with authors Jason Diamond, Benjamin Lorr, and Allyson Brantley, Ph.D.

Some of the books I read this summer:

• The Power of Strangers, Joe Keohane (I’ll be dropping an extended interview/podcast with Joe in a couple weeks, stay tuned)

• Citizen Coors, Dan Baum

• The Ice Storm, Rick Moody

• The Alienist, Caleb Carr

• Strip Tease, Carl Hiaasen

• Tourist Season, Carl Hiaasen

• The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah

Some of these titles are about drinking directly or indirectly, and some have nothing to do with it. I contain multitudes, people! If you’ve got recommendations for books that should be on my list for the future, sound off in the comments below.

1. Music credit: The intro/outro music to this episode of The Fingers Podcast is SKA Podcast / YouTube / Channel Intro by NaturesEye, sourced via Pixabay.

2. Disclosure: If you do buy something through my link, I receive a small fee. I think everyone sort of understands how affiliate programs work but I figured it couldn’t hurt to spell it out.