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WhiskyCast is where it all begins. Now in our 18th year, each weekly podcast brings you the latest in whisky news, along with the latest events, tasting notes, comments from other listeners, and the weekly “In-Depth” segment features interviews with the people who help make whisky the “water of life”.

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Episode 589: May 14, 2016

The statue of Booker Noe at the Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. Photo ©2012, Mark Gillespie/CaskStrength Media.Booker Noe passed away in 2004, but some of the whiskey he laid down shortly before his death is adding a new chapter to his legacy. This past week, Booker’s son Fred filled the first bottle of Booker’s Rye, an experimental whiskey only Booker and a handful of people at Jim Beam knew about for many years – and discovered long after his passing. It’s one of two new whiskies that help make up what we’re unofficially calling the “Booker Noe Trilogy” along with the 25th Anniversary edition of Booker’s from 2014, and we’ll talk about it with Fred Noe on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, we’ll have the latest on new whiskies from around the world, and one of the whiskies in this week’s tasting notes may “enlighten” you a bit…


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