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Podcast: Homebrew Murder Crew
Episode: MICROBREW: The Whisky War for Hans Island
Description: In this episode, we dive into the delightfully strange and surprisingly heartwarming tale of the Whisky War, a 50‑year territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark over the tiny, uninhabited Hans Island. What began in the 1970s as an unresolved boundary question slowly evolved into a tongue‑in‑cheek ritual: each country’s military would visit the island, remove the other’s flag, raise their own, and leave behind a bottle of national liquor—Canadian whiskey or Danish schnapps—as a cheeky calling card.The MICROBREW blends history, humor, and geopolitics—showing how a barren rock in the Arctic became a...