Growing a Whisky Business in Glasgow (WhiskyCast Episode 708: June 21, 2018)
The Glasgow Distillery Company won't release its first 1770 Glasgow single malt whisky until later this year, but the four-year-old company is already kicking off a year-long expansion project to doub...
21 Jun 201841min
Speed Rack: Women Shaking Cocktails for a Cause (WhiskyCast Episode 707: June 17, 2017)
There are plenty of cocktail competitions for bartenders, but Speed Rack was one of the first to highlight women working behind the bar. Lynette Marrero and Ivy Mix founded Speed Rack in 2012 to not o...
17 Jun 201840min
A Double Whammy for US Whisky Distillers (WhiskyCast 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 of the trade war between the United States and its tra...
15 Jun 201847min
The First American Single Malt Whiskey? (WhiskyCast Episode 705: June 10, 2018)
Historians aren't sure who distilled the first Scotch-style single malt whiskey in the United States, but Oregon's Clear Creek Distillery has a pretty solid claim to the title. Steve McCarthy started ...
11 Jun 201849min
Whisky By the Generations (WhiskyCast Episode 704: June 7, 2018)
With Father's Day coming up, we'll meet a Scottish woman following her father into the whiskey business. That's right...whiskey. Jennifer Nickerson married her Irish farmer husband, Liam Ahearn, and m...
7 Jun 201846min
A Whisky Trade War on the Horizon? (WhiskyCast Episode 703: June 3, 2018)
Canada and the European Union are planning retaliatory tariffs on imports of Bourbon and other American whiskies after this week's move by the Trump Administration to impose tariffs on their steel and...
3 Jun 201847min
Becoming a Bourbon Badass (WhiskyCast Episode 702: May 31, 2018)
Bourbon scares some people away...at first. Often, those who approach Bourbon gingerly develop a true passion for it, and become what Linda Ruffenach refers to as a "Bourbon Badass." Linda founded the...
1 Jun 201851min
Port Charlotte and Islay's "Middle Child Syndrome" (WhiskyCast Episode 701: May 27, 2018)
Bruichladdich's Port Charlotte single malt lies in between the distillery's namesake unpeated whiskies and its Octomore heavily peated malts, and Bruichladdich CEO Douglas Taylor admits the range has ...
27 Mai 201851min
