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Happy Hour Live at the American Whiskey Convention (Episode 898: September 15, 2021)

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Live broadcasting is sort of like walking a tightrope…most of the time, it works. Then, there are those times when one’s walking the tightrope while juggling chainsaws, and that’s what happened during our #HappyHourLive webcast Friday night at the American Whiskey Convention. While the live video stream was plagued with technical glitches, our audio backup made this episode possible! Thanks to all of our guests who joined us Friday night, as well as those of you who watched the live video stream. Links: Catoctin Creek | Kentucky Artisan Distilling | Jefferson’s Bourbon | Cooper Spirits | Altered State Distillery | Read More »

Heaven Hill Workers on Strike

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By Mark Gillespie September 11, 2021 – With the biggest weekend of the year in the “Bourbon Capital of the World” just a few days away, visitors  to Bardstown, Kentucky for the Kentucky Bourbon Festival may be greeted with picket signs at the town’s newest attraction. Heaven Hill workers started a strike today after their five-year contract expired at midnight and are staffing a picket line outside the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience, which opened this summer after a two-year renovation and upgrade project. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23-D voted overwhelmingly in favor of the strike Read More »

Happy Hour Live with Brent Elliott, Darryl McNally, and Christopher Coates (Episode 896: September 8, 2021)

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Four Roses is releasing its 2021 Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon this month, and Master Distiller Brent Elliott joined us on the latest #HappyHourLive webcast with the details. We’re also joined by Darryl McNally. who stepped down as Master Distiller at Ireland’s Dublin Liberties Distillery recently to start his own Limavady Irish Whiskey brand and revive his family’s distilling heritage in Northern Ireland’s County Antrim. Whisky Magazine editor Christopher Coates makes his first appearance on our Friday night webcasts, too. Join us each Friday at 5:00pm New York time for our live webcasts on the WhiskyCast YouTube channel, our Facebook Read More »

Happy Hour Live with Steve Beal, David Blackmore, Ewan Morgan, and Owen Martin (Episode 894: September 1, 2021)

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Make sure your battery’s charged for this one, since we spent nearly two hours talking the other night with longtime Scotch Whisky and Bourbon ambassdors Steve Beal, David Blackmore, and Ewan Morgan, along with Stranahan’s head distiller Owen Martin. We covered everything from Steve’s ongoing fight against pancreatic cancer to life on the road and Owen’s latest distillery exclusive bottling for Stranahan’s. Join us each Friday night for our #HappyHourLive webcast at 5pm New York time on the WhiskyCast YouTube channel, our Facebook page, Twitter, and Twitch. Links: Stranahan’s | Glenmorangie | Ardbeg | Classic Malts | Bulleit Bourbon

Calumet Farm Bourbon Review

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Calumet Farm Bourbon is a sourced whiskey and curiously, it isn’t labeled as a Kentucky Straight Bourbon. It says it’s a “Product of Kentucky”, but that statement doesn’t really have much meaning. It could be sourced from Indiana and Tennessee, blended and bottled in KY and get labeled a “Product of Kentucky”. This is a […]

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Happy Hour Live with the Bourbon Women: Peggy Noe Stevens, Heather Wibbels, and Maggie Kimberl (Episode 892: August 25, 2021)

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Bourbon Women is one of the largest groups around for women who love whiskey, and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week with its annual SIPosium conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Founder and Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame member Peggy Noe Stevens joined us on the #HappyHourLive webcast last Friday night, along with chair Heather Wibbels and president Maggie Kimberl. Heather’s a cocktail expert in her own right at the Cocktail Contessa web site, while Maggie is also the content editor for American Whiskey magazine and a contributor to Whisky Magazine. Collectively, they’ve probably forgotten more about whiskey than most people Read More »

Blackened x Willett Rye Madeira Finish Review

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Blackened x Willett Rye is a project combining the resources and talents of three men: Drew Kulsveen, Rob Dietrich and Lars Ulrich. Drew provided the whiskey (combination of high rye and low rye whiskeys), Rob supplied the finishing process (wine barrels and “Black Noise”), and Lars sequenced a unique playlist, chosen by Rob and Drew, […]

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Let’s Grab a Drink! – Regions of Scotland Tasting

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A quick announcement to let all you amazing readers know that I’ve joined forces with Talent Talk and Spirits Co. to put on a virtual tasting hitting the Regions of Scotland. We’ll be drinking Glen Scotia 15-Year-Old, Singleton of Dufftown 15-Year-Old, Deanston Virgin Oak, Aerolite Lyndsay 10-Year-Old (The Character of Islay Whisky Company) and Glenkinchie […]

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Jack Daniel’s Revives a Piece of History With New 10-Year-Old Whiskey

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August 23, 2021 – Jack Daniels became the world’s best-selling American Whiskey without an age statement, but that’s not how Jack Daniel himself made his whiskey. Before his death in 1911, Jack Daniel regularly bottled whiskies with age statements ranging from 10 to 21 years old. After Prohibition ended and the Motlow family resumed distilling, the lack of older whiskies forced them to bottle Jack Daniel’s without an age statement. That changes with the debut of the new Jack Daniel’s 10 Year Old Tennessee Whiskey, the first whiskey from Jack Daniel’s in more than 100 years to carry an age Read More »

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