The Growth of Speyside // Blended Scotch, Railroads and Regulation
Send a text For this week's episode we are returning to Scotland as we embark on the growth of the whiskey region, Speyside, in the 1880's. It would be this decade that would put Speyside on the map a...
18 Dec 202416min
French Wine and Phylloxera // The Little Pest that Changed the Wine Industry
Send a text This week we're continuing the conversation around the history of whiskey in the 1880's. And yes, today's episode will lean more on wine, but it was phylloxera, a little insect that would ...
11 Dec 202420min
Introduction to the 1880’s // Season Two Now Live!
Send a text The 1880’s was a dynamic decade marked by rapid industrialization, innovation and significant political change around the world. And this was true within the liquor industries, including f...
4 Dec 202425min
Raise a Glass // The End of Prohibition
Send a text In the law-breaking spirit of the decade that spawned bootleggers, speakeasies, and organized crime, we realized that we had to bend the rules and cover events that stretch beyond the 1920...
4 Sep 202423min
Bourbon's Tales // Ingenuity & Defiance during Prohibition
Send a text This week is all about American Whiskey, aka Bourbon, during the 1920's! Prohibition was a rocky time for the bourbon industry, but it also sparked some cool tales of ingenuity and defianc...
28 Aug 202438min
Whiskey's New Dawn // The Road to Repeal
Send a text In this week's episode - we take another look at Prohibition. This time Sarah and I talk about the positives of Prohibition. After unleashing economic devastation and levels of crime never...
21 Aug 202433min
The Father(s) of Japanese Whiskey // A 1920's Legacy
Send a text In the second part of our episodes on the birth of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru and Shinjiro Torii join forces and build a distillery you may be familiar with. Hint - It just celebr...
14 Aug 202432min
Japanese Whisky // The Rise of Japan's Liquid Gold
Send a text So far our episodes have focused on what was happening with whiskies in the West. That changes today. Our next two episodes will focus on Japan and how it became a major whisky producer i...
7 Aug 202431min
