craft distilling

Glen Grant’s Dennis Malcolm marked 50 years at the distillery during 2011, and spent Christmas Day on a special mission. On Christmas Day in 1961,… Read More

This is a big weekend for the eight founders of Sweden’s Mackmyra Distillery. Their initial dream of building Sweden’s first whisky distillery has been more… Read More

Whisky Magazine announced its U.S. Icons of Whisky Awards this week in Louisville, and I was on hand for the ceremonies. Four Roses won Distiller… Read More

Chuck Miller describes himself as “America’s First Craft Distiller”. He’s been making moonshine legally at his Belmont Farm Distillery in Culpeper, Virginia for 25 years,… Read More

As the U.S. faces another debt crisis, this week marks the anniversary of a key event in another U.S. debt crisis…the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.… Read More

In the last episode, I mentioned the Balcones Brimstone blue corn whiskey from Balcones Distillery in Waco, Texas…and how the corn was smoked over Texas… Read More

David Perkins has been getting a lot of attention for his High West whiskies. Malt Advocate just named him its Industry Pioneer of the Year,… Read More

Still in Indiana, but that’s giving me a chance to catch up with old friends. Matt Colglazier writes the American Craft Spirits blog, and also… Read More

This episode marks a milestone…the fifth anniversary of the first WhiskyCast episode. Veteran bartender and author of “Bartending for Dummies” Ray Foley joins us to… Read More

The Whisky Guild held its annual “Whisky on the Hudson” tasting and dinner cruise in New York City the other night, with more than 900… Read More

Dave Pickerell has been keeping a low profile since leaving Maker’s Mark in April of 2008. Turns out he was doing research into rye and… Read More

Time for another trip inside the blending lab, and Iain McCallum of Morrison Bowmore is our host. He’ll take us through some old Auchentoshans and… Read More