By Kurt Maitland Amazon’s Three Drinkers are the spirits world’s version of the old Top Gear TV show. Less sports cars, less controversy, younger crew but strangely an almost equivalent amount of (better) booze. Their series hit Amazon last year, and they are finalizing Season Two as we speak. The Drinkers took time from their hectic schedule to chat with ...

By Richard Thomas Although it didn’t get much attention at the time, keen observers of Tennessee Whiskey remember that from 2015 to 2018 affairs at what was once known as and is now known again as the Cascade Hollow Distillery were hanging in limbo. First Master Distiller John Lunn suddenly left the company. After his departure, the #2 distiller at ...

By Richard Thomas New distillery openings are a common enough story now, even for well-established brands owned by big liquor companies. Just as common is seeing a company that started building its identity several years ago with sourced whiskey making the transition to distilling its own spirits. Both of these events are staples of the American whiskey boom. Even against ...

By Richard Thomas As a Gen Xer guy, I was part of the tail end of the days when people bought actual printed girlie magazines, so I must make a confession/disclaimer in opening this interview: Carrie Stevens, Ms. June 1997, was my favorite from that era. Twenty years later, I tripped over her social media, remembered her, and became a ...

By Emma Briones Brian Nation wasn’t interested in working in a distillery. That probably sounds incredible, but Nation himself claim “It happened almost by accident.” Despite stumbling into it, working in whiskey was the best accident that could had happened to him. He joined Irish Distillers after graduating with an engineering degree and has risen to become their  Master Distiller. ...