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Bourbon, But Make It Toasty | Cole Hanna of H.K. Young (opens the original)
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What happens when an Army officer, a few whiskey nerds, and a serious obsession with bourbon get together and decide to start a whiskey company? You get H.K. Young. This week on Whiskey Rocks, Joel and Chris sit down with Cole Hanna of H.K. Young Bourbon Co. to talk about the journey from Fort Campbell to the bourbon business, the veteran community, sourcing great whiskey, and the question H.K. Young keeps asking: What’s next? Then we get into what they’re really known for: toasted bourbon. We t
Born to Be Red: High Wire Distilling & the Jimmy Red Corn Story (opens the original)
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What do you get when a nearly forgotten South Carolina heirloom corn meets a couple of obsessive entrepreneurs, a Charleston distillery, and a whole lot of whiskey? You get Jimmy Red. On this episode of Whiskey Rocks, we sit down with Scott Blackwell, co-founder of High Wire Distilling in Charleston, South Carolina , to hear the incredible story behind Jimmy Red corn and the bourbon that helped bring it back from the brink. Scott takes us from his unconventional path into distilling to the disco
Phil Brandon of Rock Town Distillery: The Story of Arkansas Whiskey & Bourbon (opens the original)
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This week on Whiskey Rocks, we’re heading to Little Rock, Arkansas, to sit down with Phil Brandon, founder of Rock Town Distillery. Phil takes us behind the scenes of building Arkansas’ first legal distillery since Prohibition, what it took to put Arkansas whiskey on the map, the importance of grain-to-glass distilling, and the risks and experiments that helped shape Rock Town into what it is today. We also taste our way through four Rock Town releases: the Straight Bourbon finished in Oloroso S
Back for Another Pour: Thomas Thacker from Southern Grace Actually Came Back to Talk Whiskey with Us (opens the original)
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Back for Another Pour: Thomas Thacker from Southern Grace Actually Came Back to Talk Whiskey with Us! Thomas Thacker is back…and we’re still trying to figure out why. When Thomas from Southern Grace Distilleries first joined Whiskey Rocks, we learned the story behind the distillery. This time, we skipped the origin story and went straight down the whiskey rabbit hole. We dive into barrel selection, fermentation, blending philosophy, whiskey myths that need to disappear, the experiments Thomas st
War Trail Spirits: They Risked Everything for Texas Whiskey (opens the original)
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War Trail Spirits: They Risked Everything for Texas Whiskey What would make you walk away from a successful career, move to Texas, and build a whiskey distillery from the ground up? In this episode of Whiskey Rocks, Joel and Chris sit down with Laurie and Bernard Quandt, the founders of War Trail Spirits, to hear the incredible story behind one of Texas’s rising craft distilleries. They dive into the risks, sacrifices, and rewards of starting over, what it takes to build a grain-to-glass whiskey
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