WhiskyCast features cask strength conversation each week, with the latest news on whiskies from around the world, whisky events, Mark Gillespie’s tasting notes, and the “WhiskyCast In-Depth” segment.
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This Week on WhiskyCast
This week, we’re on the road at the annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival in Bardstown, Kentucky! We’ll have highlights from the festival throughout this week’s show, including the presentation of the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame’s Parker Beam Lifetime Achievement Award to Bill Samuels Jr. of Maker’s Mark and the induction of the Hall’s Class of 2017.
In the news, Brown-Forman will invest $45 million to upgrade its Louisville cooperage over the next two years, while planning to cut around 70 jobs once the project is completed. Local leaders in Bardstown are working on a new project to cement the town’s place as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” We’ll also catch up with old friends from Bourbon Country and look at the week’s new whiskies from around the world.
WhiskyCast pioneered the genre of whisky-focused podcasts, and we’re still going strong in our 12th year! The very first episode of WhiskyCast hit the web on November 12, 2005, and since then, we’ve produced hundreds of hours of original audio and video content for whisky lovers like you around the world. Our community spans at least 150 different countries, and we’ve done stories on whiskies made in the far north of Scandinavia all the way to the tips of South Africa and Australia – and everywhere in between. We’ve met many of you at whisky festivals and while visiting distilleries, and hope to meet many more of you over time.
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Whisky Photo of the Week
One of the stills inside the second stillhouse at Taiwan’s King Car/Kavalan Distillery. The new stillhouse opened last December, and helped bring the distillery’s capacity to 9 million liters of spirit annually.
