September 3, 2020 – Jeff Arnett is stepping down as Master Distiller for Jack Daniel’s, one of the world’s top-selling and most well-known whiskey brands.… Read More
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Ireland’s Slane Distillery Coming of Age (Episode 833: August 23, 2020)
It’s been almost three years since Brown-Forman and the Conyngham family fired up the stills at Slane Distillery on the family’s Slane Castle estate near… Read More
200 Years, 6 Master Blenders (Episode 832: August 16, 2020)
Johnnie Walker is celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2020, and in all that time, there have been only six master blenders. Jim Beveridge is the… Read More
Betting on Horses and Bourbon Pinhook-Style (Episode 829: July 26, 2020)
Among horse racing enthusiasts, “pinhooking” is the name for investing in a young horse based solely on its pedigree and potential for success, then cashing… Read More
Calls for Change & Diversity in the Whisky Community (Episode 823: June 14, 2020)
Recent protests over racism and police brutality against African-Americans have led to greater calls for diversity throughout American society, and the whisky industry is no… Read More
Nearest and Jack Team Up Again with $5 Million Whiskey Diversity Initiative
By Mark Gillespie June 11, 2020 – In the years before the Civil War, Nathan “Nearest” Green taught a young Jack Daniel how to make… Read More
Creating a Sustainable Future for Whisky (Episode 818: May 10, 2020)
While world leaders have rightly been focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, the issue of climate change has its own long-term impact on the whisky community… Read More
WhistlePig’s Great Beer Rescue of 2020 (Episode 817: May 3, 2020)
Whisky is what beer dreams of being when it grows up, but the Covid-19 pandemic has left craft brewers with tens of thousands of gallons… Read More
Scotch Whisky’s Future in the Climate Crisis (Episode 805: February 9, 2020)
World leaders will be in Glasgow later this year for the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference, and Scotch Whisky industry leaders plan to be… Read More
“The Amber Light” Brings Scotch Whisky to the Big Screen (Episode 803: January 26, 2020)
Is making whisky an art or a science? In “The Amber Light,” filmmaker Adam Park makes the argument that Scotch Whisky is an art as… 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
Winner, Winner…Whiskey Dinner! (Episode 796: December 8, 2019)
Nicole Austin can be excused for walking on Cloud 9 the other night at Whisky Advocate’s WhiskyFest in New York City. The George Dickel master… Read More