Bourbon…Not Just for the Boys Any More! (Episode 756: February 24, 2019)20190224215912
Bourbon…Not Just for the Boys Any More! (Episode 756: February 24, 2019)
Mark GillespieFebruary 24, 2019"found barrels", @davidmarra, @hfs_houseofyork, @lwmooromsky1, @odysseusunbound, @ralfknoop, An Bord Pleanála, anniversary, appeal, Archangel, art, auction, Autumn Nethery, Balblair, Balcones, bar code, Benromach, binge drinking, Black Button Distilling, blender, Bloody Butcher, Bloody Butcher's Creed, blue corn, Bourbon, Bruce Nethery, Buffalo, Bulleit, Catoctin Creek, charity, chef, collecting, collection, Compass Box, Constellation Brands, copper works, Cotswolds Distillery, Dave Sweet, David Coulthard, David Marra, Diageo, distilling, Dr. Jim Swan, Dublin, Dublin Liberties Distillery, Dumfries, F1, family, farming, flipping, Florida, Formula One, Founder's Choice, Galloway, Glengoyne, Glenmorangie, Gordon & MacPhail, Gortinore, Grand Prix, Great Northern Distillery, Gunnar Nilsson, health, heirloom grain, Heritage Series, High West, Highland Park, Hunter Nethery, Interstate 64, inventory, Ireland, Jared Himstedt, Jeptha Creed, John Teeling, Joyce Nethery, Kentucky, L'Anima, Llandudno, London, Louisville, Louth, Martin MacDonald, Massimo Bottura, maturation complex, minimum unit pricing, Moonshine University, motorsports, National Gallery, Natterjack, New York, painting, Penderyn, planning, Prohibition, Quintessential Brands, racing, Ralf Knoop, Raphael, Redbreast, Redbreast Dream Cask, RFID, Saltire, Saltire Edition, Sarasota, ScotchWhisky.com, Scotland, Shelby County, Shelbyville, Sotheby's, Springbank, stillman, Swansea, Swansea Council, Sweden, Texas, Texas Pot Still Bourbon, The Dalmore, The Welsh Whisky Company, Tobias and the Angel, Tom Fredericks, Turner Moore, Utah, Verrochio, Viking Funeral, Virginia, Waco, warehouse, Waterford, Welsh Assembly, whiskey, Whiskey & Barrel Nite, Whiskey and Barrel Nite, Whiskey Obsession Festival, whisky, Whisky Live, World Whisky Day, zoning0 comments
There’s a long tradition of fathers and sons in whisky distilling, but Kentucky’s Jeptha Creed Distillery is one of the few distilleries w...
The Speed Art Museum’s “Art of Bourbon” Auction (Episode 725: September 16, 2018)20180916182607
The Speed Art Museum’s “Art of Bourbon” Auction (Episode 725: September 16, 2018)
Mark GillespieSeptember 16, 2018@The_Jage, @turnipwhiskery, #fermentationfriday, A. Smith Bowman, Aberfeldy, airport, Alltech, Amrut, Angel's Share Glass, art, auction, Bardstown, Bardstown Bourbon Company, Beam Suntory, benefits, bicycle, Bill Lumsden, Bill Samuels Jr., Bourbon, Bourbon & Beyond, Buffalo Trace, Canada, Caol Ila, Carlow Brewing Company, Chambers Bay Distillery, charity, Chicken Cock Whiskey, China, Coastal Collection, collaborative distilling, Colorado, Conor McGregor, contract, contract distilling, Coxs Creek, Distillery Select, Donald Trump, Douglas Laing & Co., education, Emmy Cox, EU, European Union, export, exports, Festival, FEW American Whiskey, Few Spirits, Four Roses, Frazier History Museum, Fred Minnick, Freddie Johnson, Fredericksburg, Glen Garioch, Glenmorangie, Gordon & MacPhail, Grain & Barrel Spirits, Grain Surfboards, Heathrow, Heaven Hill, horse racing, Hunter S. Thompson, import, intellectual property, Ireland, Irish, Irish Whiskey, Isaac Bowman, Isaac Bowman Pioneer Spirit, Jeff Royalty, Jim Beam, Jimmy Russell, Joe Dangler, Julian Van Winkle III, Justify, Karen Somerville, Kavalan, Kentucky, Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame, Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby Museum, Kirin, Lawrenceville, Littlemill, Littlemill Celestial Edition, local, Loch Lomond, London, Louisville, Maine, Maker's Mark, Matt Shattock, Max Shapira, MGP, Michael Bendavid, mixed martial arts, MMA, music, National Conference of Firemen & Oilers, negotiations, Notorious, Pappy Van Winkle, Parker Beam, Parker Beam Lifetime Achievement Award, Parkinson's disease, Paul Hletko, Pearse Lyons, Pioneer Spirit, Port Cask, President, Prohibition, provenance, Puget Sound, Repeal Batch, research, Sazerac, Seamus O'Hara, Shriners Hospital for Children, Skye, Speed Art Museum, staves, Stephen Reily, Stitzel-Weller, strike, surfboard, Tacoma, Taiwan. Ian Chang, Talisker, tariffs, Town Branch Distillery, trade, trademark, travel retail, Triple Crown, Truman Cox, two-tier, UFC, UFCW, union, United Food & Commercial Workers, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Virginia, Washington, whiskey, whisky, Whisky Fairy, Wild Turkey, Woody Creek, Woody Creek Distillers, World Duty Free, World of Whiskies, XOP, Xtra Old Particular0 comments
Bourbon & Beyond gets underway this Friday night in Louisville with a charity Bourbon auction to benefit the Speed Art Museum. The whiskies going ...
Growing a Whisky Business in Glasgow (Episode 708: June 21, 2018)20180621095123
Growing a Whisky Business in Glasgow (Episode 708: June 21, 2018)
Mark GillespieJune 21, 2018@Bill_Linnane, @Juventus777Jets, @thatsdramgood, @whiskeycat1324, 1770, A'Bunadh, Aberlour, aluminum, American Oak, American Single Malt, Anchorage, aroma, Arran, art, Asyla, balaclava, Berkshire Mountain Distillers, Big Bottom Distilling, Bill Linnane, bodega, Bourbon, brewery, Brussels, Canada, Carlo Todaro, Cecilia Malmström, China, Civil Liberties, Colorado, Compass Box, construction, cooperage, Cork, Corti Brothers, craft distillers, crowbar, Darryl McNally, dispute, distillery manager, Dream Cask, Dublin, Dublin Liberties Distillery, Eastside Distilling, Eddie Russell, Edition No. 4, Edition Series, EU, European Oak, European Union, exhibit, expansion, exports, flavor, Glasgow, glasses, Glencairn, Gordon Motion, Graham Omand, Grand Central Station, Haley Traub, Hedonism, High West, Highland Park, Hopscotch, Ian McDougall, importer, imports, Ireland, Irish Whiskey, Isle of Arran, James MacTaggart, Jessi Mills, John Egan, John Glaser, Kentucky, Lagavulin, Lagg, Liam Hughes, Liberties, Lynette Marrero, Mad River Distillers, Manitoba, Master's Keep, Maverick Drinks, Mexico, Michael Vachon, Michter's, Midleton, Mike Hayward, New Riff, New York City, Newport, Omar Fitzell, Oregon, Orkadia, Orkney, oxidation, Pappy Van Winkle, Portland, Quercus Alba, Quercus Robur, Redbreast, Revenue, Revival, Richard Lewis, Ryan Maloney, Sacramento, sales, Scotch Whisky, Scotland, security system, sherry, Smoke and Peat, Solstice, Spain, Spanish Oak, Speed Rack, steel, Stephen Bremner, tariffs, Tennent's, The Dark, The Glasgow Distillery Company, The Light, The Macallan, The Macallan M, The Whisky Fairy, Tomatin, tonneleria, Toronto, tourism, tours, trade, trade war, Travis Schoney, Trump Administration, Vail, Vermont, visitors center, whiskey, whiskey bunker, whisky, Wild Turkey, Winnipeg0 comments
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 a...
Episode 616: November 20, 201620161120195716
Episode 616: November 20, 2016
Mark GillespieNovember 20, 2016@Neuro_Kellie, @pkhtex, @Whisky_Jean, @WomenWhoWhiskey, addiction, airport, Anchor Distilling, appeal, art, auction, author, Aviation Gin, bartender, binge drinking, Bobby G, Bobby Gleason, book, Bourbon, Canada, Celebration Sour Mash, cocktail, Compass Box, court, Court of Session, Davos Brands, Diageo, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Distiller's Edition, donation, Douglas Laing & Co., drink, European Union, Extra Old Particular, Fred Minnick, Hotaling, House Spirits, Jasper Spears, Jewish Whisky Company, Julia Ritz Toffoli, Kellie Jaremko, LCBO, Magic Cask, Manhattan, marijuana, medical, medicine, Michter's, minimum pricing, minimum unit pricing, Monarch of the Glen, National Galleries of Scotland, National Museum of Scotland, Old Particular, Old Potrero, Ontario, opioid, painting, Parliament, Paul Hansen, Portland, Prohibition, provenance, recovery, retirement, San Francisco, Scotch Whisky, Scotch Whisky Association, Scotland, shaken, Single Cask Nation, Sir Edwin Landseer, slavery, stirred, substance abuse, Supreme Court, Surgeon General, SWA, Talisker, taxes, The Irishman, The Singleton of Glendullan, Tom Mooney, Toronto, Vivek Murthy, vodka, Walsh Whiskey Distillery, whiskey, whisky, Willie Pratt, Writers Tears, Xtra Old Particular0 comments
Bourbon’s history is as murky as a fermenter full of mash, and questions about the origins of Bourbon have led to more than a few arguments over...
Making a Whisky Glass: Don’t Try This At Home!20151105195811
Making a Whisky Glass: Don’t Try This At Home!
Mark GillespieNovember 5, 2015art, Auchentoshan, Brooklyn, Danielle Brenslinger, glass, glass blowing, New York, rocks glass, Scotch, Susannah Skiver Barton, Urban Glass, whisky, writers0 comments
Whisky glasses come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and while most of us have our own personal favorite style of glass, they all start out the same ...
Episode 535: May 16, 201520150517002023
Episode 535: May 16, 2015
Mark GillespieMay 17, 2015age statement, Alan Winchester, Albert Einstein, Ardbeg, Ardbeg Day, art, Atlantic City, Austin Powers, author, bacon roll, Balmenach, Ben Nevis, Bernard Walsh, Bill Lumsden, Bill Ricker, book, Burn Stewart, Burns, Carlow, charity, comic, Compass Box, con, council, crash, Creative Whisky Company, Deanston, death, demand, design, dispute, Dornoch, Duthac, Eddie Russell, Eric Gregory, Ernest Hemingway, explosion, export, fantasy, fire, fundraiser, future, Gandalf, Gillian McDonald, Glenmorangie, goal, Hamish Torrie, Hardin, Heathrow, Heaven Hill, Hedonism, Hedonism Quindecimus, history, Hunter S. Thompson, infection, interview, Invergordon, Ireland, Irish Water, Irish Whiskey, Irish Whiskey Association, Jackson Pollack, Jay Rogers, Jeffrey Lohr, Jimmy Russell, Kevin Smith, Kyle Rogers, La Santa, labels, Laphroaig, Ledaig, Master's Keep, Merlin, Mike Lord, Mini-Me, Nashville, Noah Rothbaum, overload, pairing, Peat Chimney, permit, Perpetuum, Philip Eagleton, Prohibition, projection, Quinta Ruban, science fiction, server, sewer, Signet, Silver Trail Distillery, Spice King, Spirit of Speyside Festival, Stephen Hawking, support fund, The Glenlivet, The Hive, The Whisky Shop Dufftown, The White Knight, travel retail, Ulysses S. Grant, Vanderbilt, Verne Troyer, Walsh Whiskey Distillery, wastewater, water, web site, Wemyss Malts, Wild Turkey, William Shatner0 comments
The labels on whisky bottles often give us more than just the legal description of what’s inside the bottle. Good ones convey the character and ...
Episode 427: June 1, 201320130601003723
Episode 427: June 1, 2013
Mark GillespieJune 1, 2013100 Pipers, Alasdair Day, altitude, Angel's Envy, antitrust, archive, art, author, Beam, BenRiach, Bernard Vianen, Bill Samuels, book, Bowmore, British Columbia, Bruichladdich, Business Standard, Cameronbridge, Chivas Brothers, Clyde Sterner, collector, competition, Dewar's, Diageo, Douglas Laing, economic development, Ewan Morgan, exhibit, expansion, expedition, Feis Ile, flavorings, Fred Laing, Fred Minnick, Gavin Smith, Glasgow, Glenfarclas, Glenmorangie, Glenrothes, Hall of Fame, Helen Potter, Highlander Honey, history, India, Invergordon, Islay, Islay Festival of Malt & Music, Jim McEwan, Joe Hyman, John Grant, Kenneth Gunn, Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Kentucky Distillers Association, Knockdhu, labeling, LCBO, Ledaig, Lincoln Henderson, Longmorn, Louisville, Maker's Mark, Marge Samuels, Mitchell Library, Mount Everest, Mull, museum, Nicola Young, North British, Office of Fair Trade, Ontario, Pali Fukatsch, photo, Rebecca Stephens, rinse, Rob Samuels, Scott Mansfield, Seagram, Shelter Point, Slovakia, Stewart Laing, stories, storytelling, summit, SWA, Sweden, The Famous Grouse, Times of India, Tobermory, Tweedale, Tweeddale Blend, United Spirits, warehouse, Wes Henderson, Whyte & Mackay, women0 comments
Stories are what give whisky its unique place in the drinks world, and this week, we’ll hear from two authors of new books on the stories and hi...
Episode 384: August 25, 201220120825001112
Episode 384: August 25, 2012
Mark GillespieAugust 25, 2012agriculture, apple, art, auction, Australia, Bardstown, Barley, Benromach, Bonhams, Bourbon, brandy, charity, Compass Box, corn, Craig Beam, distillery, drought, Evan Williams, Family Casks, farm, farmer, Flaming Heart, flood, Glenfarclas, Great King Street, Heaven Hill, Heritage, John Glaser, John Hansell, Kentucky, Lark, Master of Malt, Oak Barrel, Par Caldenby, Parker Beam, retail, Scotland, single malt, Smögen, Speyside, Springbank, Sweden, Sydney, weather, Whisky Advocate, whisky school, WhiskyFest0 comments
Par Caldenby caught the whisky bug at an early age, but built a career as a lawyer in Sweden. The whisky bug first inspired him to write the book R...
Episode 329: August 14, 201120110813214548
Episode 329: August 14, 2011
Mark GillespieAugust 13, 2011Amrut, apron, Arizona, art, Balblair, Bob Townsend, Bourbon, Buffalo Trace, Camelback Inn, Campbeltown, Canada, Canadian, Canadian Club, Canadian Whisky, Chichibu, Davin de Kergommeaux, Douglas Campbell, Edinburgh, Forty Creek, Ichiro Akuto, Japan, John Hall, Kadhambam, Karuizawa, Kittling Ridge, Miner's Delight Inn, Number One Drinks Company, Old Pulteney, Royal Mile Whiskies, Rye, San Diego, Scottsdale, spa, Springbank, storytelling, Tomatin, tourism, Travel, Two Continents, Whisky Fringe, whisky school, white dog, Wyoming0 comments
It’s the second weekend of the month, and they’re raising dust on the dirt road leading to Atlantic City. Not the one in New Jersey, but t...
Episode 303: February 13, 201120110213151630
Episode 303: February 13, 2011
Mark GillespieFebruary 13, 2011Alistair Longwell, Ardmore, art, Beam, Bert Forsyth, Bourbon, Celtic Heartlands, Derby, Diageo, distillery, distilling, Early Times, economy, Fred Noe, Glenfarclas, Glenglassaugh, Indiana, Irish, Jim Beam, Jim McEwan, Julio's, KDA, Kentucky, Kentucky Distillers Association, Knappogue Castle, Lexington, Maysville, Old Pogue, Old Pulteney, Paul Walsh, Pearse Lyons, Project, Ryan Maloney, TV0 comments
This week’s episode comes from Edinburgh…no, not THAT Edinburgh. I’m actually in Edinburgh, Indiana on family business, but talked w...