One More Sip
A thoughtful podcast about high-quality sipping drinks—often high-proof—focused on what they are, where they come from, and why they taste the way they do.
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Bourbon, Part II: How Production Shapes Taste (opens the original)
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This episode is about how bourbon is made. We’ll hear how choices about grain, recipe, yeast, wood, time, and strength shape what finally reaches the glass, and how the law sets the boundaries around those decisions. It’s a story of character taking form long before the bottle is sealed. So the story begins where that character first takes root.
Bourbon: Corn, Char, and the Honest Bottle (opens the original)
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This is the story of how bourbon became a distinctive American whiskey, from early grain whiskey and Kentucky distilling to the rules, labels, and styles that define it today. We move from the practical beginnings of making whiskey, through the slow settling of bourbon as a named style, into the long push for honest bottles and clear standards. Then the focus widens from law to taste, using three simple style axes and four bottles to show how far apart good bourbons can sit. So before the name o
Rum, In the Making: From Cane Field to Bottle (opens the original)
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This is the story of how rum is shaped from cane field to bottle. What follows traces the choices that guide its character—how the cane is grown and harvested, how its sugars are prepared and fermented, how the spirit is distilled, rested or aged, and how it is finally balanced before bottling. So before the still and the barrel have their say, we begin where that character first starts to form.
Rum: Origins, Rules, and the Rum Spectrum (opens the original)
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This is the story of how rum changed from a by-product of sugar-making into a global spirit shaped by trade, branding, law, production, and style. Along the way, it moves through the Caribbean, the Atlantic world, naval life, modern cocktails, legal definitions, and the often-misleading language of labels, before ending with a simple way to think about how different great rums can be. And to understand all of that, it helps to begin with what the sugar world first left behind.
Scotch, Step by Step: From Barley to the Glass (opens the original)
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This narrative follows how Scotch whisky is made and how its character is shaped from the first raw materials to the whisky in the bottle. It moves through each stage in turn, showing how choices along the way influence aroma and flavour. So before oak, copper, and time do their work, we begin where the process is first set in motion.
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