Distilling Heirloom Grains at a Heritage Distillery
The grain used to make many of today's whiskies isn't always picked for its flavor, but that's not the distiller's fault. Blame the commodity grain system, in which the largest grain customers determi...
19 Nov 202149min
Teamwork...In the Pits and the Distillery
Stock car racing got its start when illicit whiskey makers took their souped-up cars to the track after outrunning the police at night, but Tom and Kim Carter Bard have flipped the script on that stor...
11 Nov 202135min
Climate Change's Impact ON Scotch Whisky
Much has been written, and done, about the impact of Scotch Whisky production on climate change over the last decade. Much less has been written about the potential impacts of climate change to Scotch...
2 Nov 202156min
Whiskey from California's Wine Country
Northern California is known for its wines, but distillers have been quietly making excellent whiskies there for many years. Now, Sonoma County's Redwood Empire Distillery is releasing its first bottl...
27 Okt 202159min
An Independent Voice for American Whisky
Independent bottlers buy casks of whisky and sell them under their own labels, and while they're common in Scotland and other parts of the world, independent bottlers are much less common in the Unite...
20 Okt 202150min
Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon: The History of Buffalo Trace
Today's Buffalo Trace Distillery started out 164 years ago when Daniel Swigert started making whiskey on the banks of the Kentucky River. His distillery didn't really have a name back then, and the si...
15 Okt 20211h 15min
Happy Hour Live with Springbank's Findlay Ross and Ranald Watson
Springbank's Findlay Ross and Ranald Watson joined us from Campbeltown, Scotland on the latest Happy Hour Live webcast to answer your whisky questions. We also talked about plans for J&A Mitchell's th...
8 Okt 20211h 12min
Designing a Bespoke Whisky...for a Bespoke Design
Master Blender Sandy Hyslop usually creates his whiskies and lets someone else worry about the packaging, but for the debut of the Royal Salute Couture Collection, he had the challenge of creating a 2...
4 Okt 202157min
