Islay Boys, Islay whisky
Scotland's Isle of Islay is known for its distilleries, and construction will begin soon on the island's 12th distillery near the shores of Laggan Bay. The Islay Boys, Donald MacKenzie and Mackay Smit...
7 Elo 202247min
35 Years on Forty Creek
Forty Creek master blender Bill Ashburn celebrated his 35th anniversary in the whisky business this week, and he's one of those blenders content to stay out of the spotlight most of the time. Ashburn ...
31 Heinä 202246min
To Your Health!
Alcohol has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, even when the healers of history didn't always know they were distilling alcohol when they made their potions. Some of those potions even so...
24 Heinä 202247min
Jackie Zykan's New Challenge
Jackie Zykan could have kept the security of her corporate job as the master taster for Brown-Forman's Old Forester whiskies, but she decided the time was right to spread her wings and fly. She's lead...
17 Heinä 202242min
Make It a Double with Author Shelley Sackier
We all have our own whisky stories to tell, and author Shelley Sackier is sharing hers in the new book "Make It a Double." She's gone from hating that first sip of whisky to becoming director of disti...
10 Heinä 202254min
Preserving the American White Oak's Future
The whisky industry depends on quercus alba, the American White Oak, for hundreds of thousands of whisky barrels each year, and that makes preserving White Oak forests a key priority for those concern...
4 Heinä 202238min
The Secret to Enjoying a Whisky: Follow Your Nose
How do our noses help us enjoy whisky? Turns out the nose has a major role to play in our enjoyment of whisky, food, and life in general. The average nose has around 400 receptors that process aromas,...
26 Kesä 202254min
Celebrating Sazerac Cocktail Week
The Sazerac is one of whisky's oldest cocktails, and it's also the official cocktail of New Orleans. They're celebrating the history of the Sazerac all this week in New Orleans with Sazerac Cocktail W...
19 Kesä 202229min
