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TEN QUESTIONS FOR THE MARVELOUS MR. MAITLAND
The author with one of his many cocktail books W hen you run across someone in this day and age that has true joie de vivre, you...
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Sep 1719 min read
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WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU: ON A MISSION WITH PHIL STEGER AND BROTHER JUSTUS
Brother Justus Founder Phil Steger W e usually view work as an extension of our identity, and a way to express ourselves, if we are...
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Jul 1634 min read
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THE STILL LIFE OF GISELA GARCIA GLERIA
With translation assistance by Catador Itinerante, AKA Pablo Goldbarg The artist's rendering of copper pot stills The first time I...
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Mar 20, 20246 min read
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CAPTURING THE LIGHT FROM A SWORD: ROY RIACHI MAKES WHISKEY IN LEBANON
The distiller and his still Nestled in the mountainous region of Metn, at an altitude of around 1100m, the Lebanese village of Khenchara...
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Feb 13, 202422 min read
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ALAN BISHOP RESPECTS THE GRAIN
Alan in his rick house at Spirits of French Lick Distillery "You are an Alchemist: Make gold of that" - William Shakespeare O ne of the...
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Jan 4, 202431 min read
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A TALK WITH THE HIGHLY SPIRITED STEPHANIE MCNEW
McNew at the Home of the Bell Witch in TN. I talk to a lot of people in the spirits business as part of my job, but I've never met anyone...
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Oct 18, 202312 min read
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MATT STRICKLAND TAKES ON THE IRON CITY DISTILLERY
It is said that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was Louisville, Kentucky, before Kentucky was known as the Bourbon Capital of the world. In the...
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Jun 8, 202333 min read
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A SCOTSMAN MAKES AMERICAN SINGLE MALT WHISKY
THE AMAZING JOURNEY OF SHANE FRASER
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Jan 25, 202315 min read
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A DATE WITH ABSINTHIA VERMUT AND THE GREEN FAIRY
A Laughter filled conversation with the noted Bay Area Craft Absinthe Producer
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Aug 17, 202217 min read
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BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE "BOURBON SASQUATCH"
Steve Akley, The Hardest Working Man in the Bourbon Biz Tune in to "The Bourbon Talk Show" sometime and you will hear the distinctive...
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Jun 23, 202216 min read
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A TOAST TO THE LADY OF THE WOODS:THE STORY OF BIRKENTREE, WHISKY'S NATURAL COMPANION
Max MacFarlane, Master Blender, with Rob Clamp, Co Founder of BIRKENTREE One of my favorite things about making a career in the world of...
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May 18, 202212 min read
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THE REAL DEAL: WHY DISTILLERY TOURS MATTER
So the story goes something like this: At around 5:30 in the evening on December 10,1914, a huge explosion erupted in West Orange, New...
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Apr 20, 20225 min read
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