WhiskyCast Episodes

This week, we’re on location in London for The Whisky Exchange’s annual Whisky Show at Old Billingsgate. We’ll have interviews from throughout the weekend on… Read More

Until now, Alfred Barnard’s classic book “The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom” was the benchmark guide of whisky history. Now, a collection of 120… Read More

The Cabrach region of Scotland’s Highlands has a distilling history that goes back centuries, but The Cabrach has been left behind as other parts of… Read More

Phil Steger distills his single malt in the Scottish tradition at Minnesota’s Brother Justus Distilling, but he’s an outlier in the American Single Malt community.… Read More

September is Bourbon Heritage Month, and while Bourbon can be made anywhere in the U.S., Kentucky is known as “the State of Bourbon.” Bourbon makers… Read More

The Scullys of County Cork have been farming the same land for nine generations over 350 years, but only in the last few years have… Read More

Actors Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder discovered their friendship and a mutual love of Bourbon on the set of “The Vampire Diaries” television series. Once… Read More

Andrew Welford is described as a “truffle hunter” for whisky history, but his best find to date didn’t sell for a penny. In fact, he… Read More

Scotland’s Isle of Islay is known for its distilleries, and construction will begin soon on the island’s 12th distillery near the shores of Laggan Bay.… Read More

Forty Creek master blender Bill Ashburn celebrated his 35th anniversary in the whisky business this week, and he’s one of those blenders content to stay… Read More

Alcohol has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, even when the healers of history didn’t always know they were distilling alcohol when they made… Read More

Jackie Zykan could have kept the security of her corporate job as the master taster for Brown-Forman’s Old Forester whiskies, but she decided the time… Read More