Lifting Spirits...and Lifting Up a Spirits Business
It's been nearly two years since Uncle Nearest and Jack Daniel's joined forces to create the Nearest and Jack Advancement Initiative with a goal of creating new opportunities for people of color in th...
6 Feb 202251min
Happy Hour Live with Clay Risen & Maggie Kimberl
Our live webcast with Clay Risen of the New York Times and Maggie Kimberl of American Whiskey Magazine went all over the place, with everything from winter weather to fake whiskies and much more! Join...
2 Feb 20221h 13min
Battling Bogus Bourbons & Confronting Counterfeiters
Fakes have been plaguing Scotch Whisky collectors for years, but the rising boom in Bourbon's popularity means more demand than supply -- and that's where counterfeiters see a chance to make money. Wi...
31 Jan 20221h
Happy Hour Live with Dave Worthington and Sam Simmons
That Boutique-y Whisky Company releases some of the most unique single cask whiskies on the market, and we're joined this week by Sam "Dr. Whisky" Simmons and Dave Worthington for whisky talk, games, ...
26 Jan 20221h 15min
Frey Ranch: Part of a New Crop of Farm Distillers
There was a time when farm distillers dominated whisky production until the advent of large-scale commercial distilling more than 150 years ago. Now, the boom in craft distilling has created a whole n...
24 Jan 202244min
Happy Hour Live with Billy Abbott and Davin de Kergommeaux
Our Friday night #HappyHourLive webcasts are back! This week's show features Billy Abbott, author of the new book "The Philosophy of Whisky," and Canadian Whisky Awards founder Davin de Kergommeaux. D...
19 Jan 202254min
Whisky Lessons from a Century Ago
A century ago, Masataka Taketsuru was using the lessons he learned during his time in Scotland to build Japan's emerging whisky industry armed with a notebook full of information. While that notebook ...
16 Jan 20221h 4min
Uncovering Evidence of Scotland's Whisky History
The excisemen of Scotland's past never found all of the illegal whisky stills being used around the country, and traces of those illicit distilleries can be found to this day...if one knows where to l...
10 Jan 202254min
