Episode 529: April 11, 2015

This week, we’re on location at the Maker’s Mark Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky for the annual Maker’s Mark Handcraft Festival and the running of the Maker’s 46 Mile at Lexington’s Keeneland Race Course. Friday also brought an estimated 1,000 whisky and Kentucky basketball fans to Keeneland for the annual signing of the Maker’s Mark Keeneland charity bottle. This year’s bottle honors legendary University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, and several of his former players spent hours signing bottles for the fans who turned out at Keeneland. We’ll have a complete wrap-up of the weekend’s events on this week’s WhiskyCast. In the news, Tennessee’s controversial whiskey law will stand for at least another year after a repeal attempt was scrapped, Scottish doctors want to see the drinking age raised from 18 to 21, and we’ll get the latest on new whiskies from BenRiach, Amrut, High West, and Heaven Hill.

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