The Bible says “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” As proof, we have the story this week of Father Jim Sichko, a Kentucky-based Catholic priest… Read More
Buffalo Trace
Craft Whisky: Optimism and a Reality Check (Episode 689: April 15, 2018)
Every distillery opens as a dream, with the backers hoping to become the next Heaven Hill, Wild Turkey, or one of countless other mainstays of… Read More
Taking Time Out of the Whisky Bottle (Episode 688: April 8, 2018)
Whisky makers have tried for decades to come up with ways of making young whiskies taste like older ones, but whisky purists will argue that… Read More
Whisky is Too Important to be Taken Seriously (Episode 687: April 1, 2018)
Scotland’s Douglas Laing & Co. is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2018, and for many of those years, the Laing family has taken a light-hearted… Read More
A Whisky Dream Realized (Episode 678: January 28, 2018)
Three years ago, we introduced you to Graeme Macaloney, a Scottish-Canadian pharmaceutical engineer with a dream of making his own single malt whisky in British… Read More
Ten Years of Making Whiskey at Mount Vernon (Episode 665: October 29, 2017)
Distillers from around the United States gathered at Virginia’s Mount Vernon this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the restoration of George Washington’s Distillery… Read More
A is for Australia, B is for Bourbon…
No, we’re not tasting Australian Bourbons…we have Australians tasting Bourbons this time around! Lilith Morgan and Chris Tatzenko make the long trip from Australia to… Read More
Silent Scotch Whisky Stills Coming Back to Life (Episode 663: October 15, 2017)
Christmas came a couple of months early for some Scotch Whisky lovers with word that the iconic Port Ellen, Brora, and Rosebank distilleries will be… Read More
There’s No Whisky Without the Barrels (Episode 660: September 24, 2017)
It’s often said that wood is responsible for most of a whisky’s flavor, and if that’s the case, then the people who make the barrels… Read More
Ringleader Pleads Guilty in “Pappygate” Bourbon Thefts
September 21, 2017 – And then there was one…one remaining defendant left in Kentucky’s “Pappygate” scandal involving the insider thefts of more than $100,000 worth… Read More
Celebrating the World’s Whiskies in Dublin (Episode 653: August 6, 2017)
Whiskies are celebrated at festivals all over the world these days, but there’s no place quite like Ireland when it comes to whisk(e)y. The inaugural… Read More
I Spy a Bourbon (Episode 650: July 16, 2017)
We’ve seen whisky and movie tie-ins before, but Old Forester’s new Statesman Bourbon is a bit different. It’s featured in the upcoming movie “Kingsman: The… Read More