ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Failing out of college after one semester, Adam von Gootkin chose to embark on an entrepreneurial adventure that has traversed e-commerce, muscle cars, and the music industry. Now, at 32 years young, he and his business partner have resurrected his family moonshine legacy 78 years after its inception, successfully introducing the world to the first ultra-premium American moonshine.
Adam’s roots in the spirits industry run deep: His ancestors were arrested in 1864 for tax evasion on a shipment of moonshine bound for Canada, resulting of the collapse of the family business, Chafee & Company Distilling. Undaunted by their demise, the clan opened the grand Chafee’s Hotel in Middletown, Connecticut, at the dawn of the Roaring ’20s, ...
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