
Pernod Ricard Hops Back Into Kentucky Bourbon (WhiskyCast Episode 772: June 16, 2019)
Ten years after Pernod Ricard left Kentucky with the sale of Wild Turkey to Gruppo Campari, the world's #2 spirits company is back in the Bluegrass State. Louisville's Rabbit Hole Distillery has agree...
17 Jun 201941min

Blackened Whiskey Begins the Next Chapter (WhiskyCast Episode 771: June 9, 2019)
Rock bands often sound differently after they replace a member, and the members of Metallica considered Master Distiller Dave Pickerell to be part of their family. They collaborated on Blackened Ameri...
10 Jun 201955min

Reviving One of Islay's Legendary Distilleries (WhiskyCast Episode 770: June 2, 2019)
Construction could begin later this year on Diageo's planned revival of the legendary Port Ellen Distillery on Islay, which was closed in 1983. Only the seaside warehouses and the old kiln building ar...
3 Jun 201945min

The Future of Whisky? (WhiskyCast Episode 769: May 26, 2019)
This week's episode is certain to arouse the ire of whisky purists. We're looking at Glyph, a "molecular whiskey" that's engineered in a lab instead of a distillery. Alec Lee and his colleagues at End...
27 Mai 201951min

Dingle Whiskey: Oliver's Dream Realized (Episode 768: May 19, 2019)
Oliver Hughes and his partners in Ireland's Porterhouse Group opened Dingle Distillery in late 2012, just as the Irish craft distilling boom was beginning. Dingle was Ireland's first new distillery in...
20 Mai 201952min

WhistlePig Rye: Moving On Without the Master (Episode 767: May 12, 2019)
Of all the craft distilleries Dave Pickerell worked with before his sudden death last November, none was more identified with him than Vermont's WhistlePig Rye. He was there at WhistlePig's founding w...
12 Mai 201951min

Poking the Bourbon Bear (Episode 766: May 5, 2019)
Let's face it. When you think of American Whiskey, Bourbon is probably top of mind. After all, Congress declared it "America's Native Spirit" 55 years ago. It wasn't always that way, and people headin...
6 Mai 201942min

A New Generation at Michter's (Episode 765: April 28, 2019)
Pam Heilmann's been making Bourbon for her entire career, but it was only in the last three years that she had the title of Master Distiller after she succeeded Willie Pratt at Michter's Distillery in...
29 Apr 20191h 1min



















