Europeans have been making rye whisky for generations, but a 20-year-old treaty between the European Union and Canada is affecting their ability to call their… Read More
Booker’s Bourbon
Stone Toasting: A New Way to Toast Whisky Casks
Coopers have used everything from torches to infrared lamps to toast the inside of barrels. Now, a technique pioneered by the wine industry is making… Read More
Waterford’s Reynier Mounting a Comeback Effort
Waterford Distillery founder Mark Reynier isn’t giving up on his dream, even though the distillery went into receivership last week. As he tells us on… Read More
High Times at High West
Utah’s High West Distillery moved production operations from its downtown Park City gastropub to a state of the art distillery in nearby Wanship. The mountaintop… Read More
15 Years of Texas Whiskey
Texas is booming as a whiskey region, with distilleries all over the Lone Star State. That history only goes back about 15 years, when pioneers… Read More
A Craft Maltster’s Closing Leaves Distillers in the Lurch
The collapse of Washington’s Skagit Valley Malting last month left distillers and brewers alike searching for new suppliers of malted barley. The craft maltster had… Read More
April New Whisky Releases
Here’s a quick look at some of the new whisky releases heading to store shelves… Molson Coors is expanding its range of Coors whiskeys with… Read More
Experiments in Whisky
Dr. Bill Lumsden has been conducting whisky experiments at both Ardbeg and Glenmorangie distilleries. His latest Ardbeg release, Heavy Vapours, involved taking part of the… Read More
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Eddie Russell has been making whiskey for 42 years, and is a Bourbon Hall of Fame member. Still, to many people, he’ll always be known… Read More
Brother’s Bond: A Bourbon “Bromance”
Actors Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder discovered their friendship and a mutual love of Bourbon on the set of “The Vampire Diaries” television series. Once… Read More
Live Whisky Events Are Returning…Are We Ready? (Episode 864: March 28, 2021)
Virtually every major whisky event worldwide in the past year has been cancelled, postponed, or gone virtual because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, live events… Read More
New Year, More WhiskyCast! (Episode 852: January 3, 2021)
Welcome to a new year, fans of the Water of Life! That’s exactly what we’ll be talking about on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. “The Water… Read More