  You Can Thank Facebook for Bourbon. You Can Thank It for Ruining Bourbon, Too. On June 13, 2019, at 1:45 p.m. EST, a private Facebook group with around 55,000 members, known simply as "BSM," was shut-down by site administrators. Was this some group where goateed Oakley dudes posted racist memes? Maybe a place for QAnon followers to spread conspiracy theories about the Deep State? No, BSM, or Bourbon Secondary Market, was simply a spot for drinkers to re-sell bottles of coveted American whiskeys.
Why the animosity? Because just like this decade saw Facebook ruin journalism, politics, rational thought, your grandma, and perhaps even all-around life in general, to many bourbon fans, it ruined drinking, too.
"Facebook made bourbon," says Gene Nassif, an extremely online whiskey fan from Iowa. He rightly notes that bourbon had been pretty dead since the 1960s, when clear spirits like vodka started rising to the forefront. Then, in 2006, Mark Zuckerberg's privacy-invading wet dream opened to everybody and soon thereafter began allowing members to start and join private groups. Coincidentally, a bourbon renaissance was in its nascent stages in America, propelled by the craft cocktail boom, the rise of foodie culture, and, some people even say, the Old-Fashioned-slugging louts on Mad Men, which premiered in 2007.   The Best TV Shows of the 2010s Manage to Stand These Are the Best Movies Coming Out in 2020 If your New Year's resolution is "see more movies," you've come to the right place. 2020 holds a lot to be excited about in the cinematic sense, from new installments in beloved franchises and adaptations of literary stalwarts to ambitious original features. You can also look forward to the fruition of secretive, long-awaited projects, like Christopher Nolan's Tenet and Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Whether your speed is animation or action, sci-fi or spy movies, 2020 has a movie (or two or three) for everyone. Here are the films we're most looking forward to.
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Sunday, January 05, 2020
How Facebook Created the Bourbon Boom—and Then Killed It
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