Waterford Distillery founder Mark Reynier isn’t giving up on his dream, even though the distillery went into receivership last week. As he tells us on… Read More
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“Do You Even Like Whisky?”
Women still face huge barriers to equality within the whisky industry, according to a new survey from the Our Whisky Foundation. The survey found high… Read More
Big Changes for Wyoming Whiskey
Wyoming Whiskey marked its 10th anniversary last December, and this April, Edrington took majority ownership of the Cowboy State’s first distillery. That ended the run… Read More
A New Career, But Carrying On the Family Legacy (Episode 807: February 23, 2020)
There’s an old saying that “sometimes, you choose the whisky business…and sometimes, it chooses you.” That could be said for Victoria Eady-Butler, who retired last… Read More
China Joins Whiskey Trade War With New Tariffs on US Exports As Distillers Pay the Price
June 18, 2018 – The list of countries scheduled to impose import tariffs on Bourbon and other American-made whiskies has grown again, with China becoming… Read More
A Double Whammy for US Whisky Distillers (Episode 706: June 14, 2018)
Tax cuts that took effect at the start of 2018 encouraged many US whisky distillers to expand their facilities. Now, they’re caught in the middle… Read More
Craft Whisky: Optimism and a Reality Check (Episode 689: April 15, 2018)
Every distillery opens as a dream, with the backers hoping to become the next Heaven Hill, Wild Turkey, or one of countless other mainstays of… Read More
Wandering The Wonderful World of Whisky (Episode 686: March 25, 2018)
Rachel Barrie is known on Twitter as @TheLadyBlender, and she’s just winding up her first year as the master blender for Brown-Forman’s BenRiach, GlenDronach, and… Read More
Episode 594: June 18, 2016
Moving is one of those things that no one really enjoys…let alone when one has to move hundreds of rare whisky samples to a new… Read More
Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame Inducts Class of 2015
September 16, 2015 – The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame inducted its 15th class of honorees during a ceremony at My Old Kentucky Home State… Read More
President Visits Cleveland Whiskey
March 19, 2015 – If the “Bourbon Summit” between US President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky ever takes place, whisky lovers… Read More
Episode 506: November 15, 2014
Stuart Harvey has been the master blender for Inver House for nearly 11 years, and he’s living proof that you don’t have to be born… Read More