Updated December 28, 2020 – Christmas came a few days early for members of the U.S. craft distilling movement. Last Monday night, both the U.S.… Read More
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Unique Whisky…From An Even More Unique Distillery (Episode 837: September 20, 2020)
Every distillery is unique, but there’s one in Australia that could redefine your concept of “unique.” Belgrove Distillery is on Peter Bignell’s farm near Kempton,… Read More
Rising From the Ashes: Du Nord and Minneapolis (Episode 824: June 21, 2020)
It would have been easy for Chris and Shanelle Montana to close Du Nord Craft Spirits after arsonists set fire to the distillery’s warehouse during… Read More
Covid-19 Pandemic Threatens U.S. Craft Distilling Industry
April 30, 2020 – While “stay-at-home” recommendations and many other limits on businesses are ending in many U.S. states over the next several days, the… Read More
The Past & Future of Whisky
Since so many people are working from home, “self-isolating” or more because of the coronavirus crisis, we’ve decided to produce some extra content to help… Read More
The Top Whisky Stories of 2019
By Mark Gillespie December 30, 2019 – The end of a year always brings with it reflections of the events that shaped the year. While… Read More
The Godfather of Australian Whisky (Episode 799: December 29, 2019)
There was no Australian Whisky industry to speak of in 1992 when Bill Lark persuaded the government to give him a license to distill whisky… Read More
An Edinburgh Distillery’s Canadian Connection (Episode 797: December 15, 2019)
Holyrood Distillery became Edinburgh’s first malt whisky distillery in nearly a century when it fired up the stills for the first time last September, but… Read More
India’s Single Malt Whisky Pioneers…15 Years Later! (Episode 792: November 10, 2019)
15 years ago, two Indian entrepreneurs took a few bottles of their single malt whisky to Glasgow, just to see if it would stand up… Read More
Support Grows For Extending Distillers’ Tax Break, But Still No Action
November 5, 2019 – There isn’t much that politicians on both sides of the aisle in Washington agree on these days., with one exception. There… Read More
Terroir in Whisky: Terrific Concept or Terrible Myth? (Episode 791: November 3, 2019)
Want to start an argument among whisky lovers? Just ask whether there’s “terroir” in whisky. Terroir is the French term for a “sense of place”… Read More
Clock Is Ticking on Tax Break for U.S. Craft Distillers
November 1, 2019 – There’s a countdown clock on the home page of the American Craft Spirits Association web site for midnight on New Year’s… Read More