Ken Lewis has accomplished a lot of things in his life, from climbing Alaska’s Denali to owning one of Kentucky’s largest chains of liquor stores.… Read More
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Growing a Whisky Business in Glasgow (Episode 708: June 21, 2018)
The Glasgow Distillery Company won’t release its first 1770 Glasgow single malt whisky until later this year, but the four-year-old company is already kicking off… Read More
The First American Single Malt Whiskey? (Episode 705: June 10, 2018)
Historians aren’t sure who distilled the first Scotch-style single malt whiskey in the United States, but Oregon’s Clear Creek Distillery has a pretty solid claim… Read More
Billy Walker’s Back in the Whisky Business with The GlenAllachie (Episode 690: April 19, 2018)
Billy Walker could have walked away from the Scotch Whisky business last year after he and his partners sold the BenRiach, GlenDronach, and Glenglassaugh distilleries… 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
Sweden’s Box Distillery to Become High Coast Distillery
April 7, 2018 – Four years after releasing its first single malt Swedish whiskies, Box Distillery will be changing its name to High Coast Distillery… Read More
A Whisky Weekend in Waco (Episode 684: March 11, 2018)
This week, we’re on the road in Waco, Texas for the inaugural RyeFest at Balcones Distilling, where they’re releasing their first-ever Rye whisky after 10… Read More
The Tale of “Uncle Nearest” and a Whiskey Legacy (Episode 666: November 5, 2017)
In 2015, Brown-Forman acknowledged what had been an open secret around Lynchburg, Tennessee for generations – that Jack Daniel’s distilling mentor was Nathan “Nearest” Green,… Read More
Whisky, Whiskey…We’ve Got It All This Week! (Episode 662: October 8, 2017)
This week, we’re in Ireland for the annual release of Midleton Very Rare from Irish Distillers. There’s something different about the 2017 edition, though…it’s made… Read More
Live at The Whisky Show in London (Episode 661: October 1, 2017)
This week, we’re in London for the annual Whisky Show at Old Billingsgate on the banks of the River Thames! We’ll catch up with a… Read More
Bacardi Takes a Stake in Ireland with Teeling Whiskey Deal
June 30, 2017 – With Irish Whiskey sales continuing to grow in the United States and worldwide, Bacardi Limited has decided to enter the market.… Read More
Straight Shooting with Bulleit Bourbon’s Tom Bulleit (Episode 645: June 11, 2017)
Tom Bulleit wasn’t born into the Bourbon business, but even as a successful Kentucky lawyer, he knew there was something calling him to whiskey. He… Read More