Oregon’s Westward Whiskey filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, as the House Spirits-owned distillery tries to reorganize its business and keep the stills running.… Read More
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The World’s Most Remote Distillery?
Few places are as remote as the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, and that makes the Faer Isles Distillery the world’s most remote distillery.… Read More
Making the Malt that Makes the Whisky (Episode 821: May 31, 2020)
Malted barley is critical to the making of many whiskies around the world, and this week, we’ll take you inside the malting process with a… Read More
Brays Released From Idaho Jail, Trial Set for July
March 31, 2020 – Secret Spirits founders Jonathan and Cindy Bray are back home in Alberta after being released from an Idaho jail. The Brays… Read More
Rutledge Distillery Construction Likely To Begin In 2019
December 7, 2018 – After three years of starts and stops because of funding and health issues, construction of the J.W. Rutledge Distillery is likely to… 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
Snowflakes in the Forecast … and Whiskey Lovers in Line (Episode 670: December 3, 2017)
Colorado’s ski resorts wish they had lift lines as long as the one that stretched down Kalamath Street in Denver Saturday morning, when hundreds of… Read More
Distilling Returns to the Birthplace of Scotch Whisky (Episode 654: August 13, 2017)
Lindores Abbey has a unique place in Scottish history. In 1494, the abbey’s Friar John Cor was responsible for the oldest known written reference to… Read More
Episode 596: July 3, 2016
Single malt whiskies have been sold in the US for decades, but technically, there’s no official definition for “single malt” in the federal government’s regulations… Read More
Episode 588: May 7, 2016
Jonathan Drew wants to take his success in the cigar business and expand into the spirits industry, and he plans to do it with the… Read More
Rutledge Distillery Ends Crowdfunding Campaign
May 6, 2016 – Five days after beginning a crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising nearly two million dollars to start work on a new distillery… Read More
Rutledge on New Distillery: “I Can’t Sit Still”
May 1, 2016 – While longtime Four Roses master distiller Jim Rutledge has nothing but good things to say about the distillery he retired from… Read More