DECEMBER 2008 EPISODES
EPISODE 179: DECEMBER 27, 2008
Marko
Karakasevic is the latest in a long family line of distillers, and like many
other sons who go into the family business, his goal is to out-do his
father. Marko's taking an unusual tack with whisky at his family's Charbay
Distillery in California's Napa Valley, and he'll explain in Part 2 of
our look at microdistillers. In the news, Scotch whisky exports fell during
the first three quarters of 2008, and Inver House is giving U.K. whisky
lovers a chance to win their own cask of An Cnoc single malt.
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EPISODE 178: DECEMBER 20, 2008
A
double feature this time around: William Wemyss shares his family's Scottish
heritage with a line of single cask and blended malts named to describe what
the whiskies inside taste like. We'll also start a two-part series looking
at the growth of microdistillers in the U.S., featuring Jess Graber of
Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey, Jay Harman of The Notch, and Brian Ellison of
Death's Door Spirits. In the news, Bruichladdich unleashes the
Octomore peat monster and the X4 quadruple-distilled spirit on the world.
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EPISODE 177: DECEMBER 14, 2008
Time for another visit to the library...Ian Buxton joins us with details on
the newest release in the Classic Expressions series of vintage whisky
books. "Truths About Whiskey" dates back to 1878, and was produced by 4
Dublin distillers arguing for regulations to protect Irish whiskeys from
what they perceived as inferior Scotch whiskies. In the news, more awards
from Whisky Magazine and The Whisky Shop, the Tom Moore Distillery in
Bardstown opens its doors to the public, and a chemistry lesson on whisky
science that's actually easy to understand!
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EPISODE 176: DECEMBER 7, 2008
Orkney's Scapa Distillery has been relatively quiet since it was acquired by
the Chivas Brothers unit of Pernod Ricard in 2005, but that's about to
change. Scapa is releasing its first new bottling since the Chivas
acquisition -- a 16-year-old malt that's available only in France now, but
will be available in many markets early in 2009. Neil Macdonald of Chivas
tells us what's been going on behind the scenes at Scapa for the last three
years. In the news, the latest Evan Williams Single Barrel is heading to
retailers, Old Pulteney is going through renovations, and you could win a
bottle of the rare White Bowmore...plus more on the 75th anniversary of the
repeal of Prohibition!
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