Holyrood Distillery: Punching Above Its Weight
The tiny Holyrood Distillery in Edinburgh shocked the whisky world when it was named Distillery of the Year last week in Whisky Magazine’s Scottish Icons… Read More
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The Spirited Chef Takes on Whisky & Food
One of the highlights of this week’s New Brunswick Spirits Festival was the food and whisky pairings created by The Spirited Chef, Taylore Darnell. She… Read More
Islay Boys, Islay Whisky (Episode 964: August 7, 2022)
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 Smith, plan to build the new Laggan Bay Distillery across from Islay’s airport on the site of a former RAF World War II barracks. MacKenzie and Smith also own the island’s lone brewery, and plan to make Islay Ales part of the Laggan Bay development. We’ll catch up with Donald MacKenzie on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, Kentucky’s Bourbon community is coming together again to help Read More »
35 Years on Forty Creek (Episode 963: July 31, 2022)
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 and John Hall put Canadian Whisky on a new course in 2000 when they released the Forty Creek Barrel Select and Three Grain whiskies, and Ashburn’s whiskies have won countless awards since then. He’ll join us on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, we have details on the U.S. government’s proposal to create an official definition for American Single Malt whiskies, along with Beam Suntory’s Read More »
TTB Issuing Proposed Standards for American Single Malts
July 28, 2022 – American single malt whisky distillers are finally getting the recognition they’ve sought from the U.S. government for the last six years. Tomorrow, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) will publish its proposed standards for American single malts in the Federal Register and open a 60-day public comment period. The proposed standard comes nearly 5 years after Seattle’s Westland Distillery and other members of the American Single Malt Whisky Commission filed petitions with the TTB to create a “standard of identity,” or official definition of American single malts. Westland co-founder Matt Hofmann told WhiskyCast the Read More »