By Kurt Maitland Quoting myself and The Lost Distillery Company, “The Lost Distillery is an independent whisky company whose stated mission is ‘to create present day expressions of legendary whiskies that belonged to the craft of whisky distilling almost a century ago’.” Between Prohibition and the time of Scotland’s “whisky loch,” (i.e. the whisky crash of the 1970s) many distilleries ...

A Chat With Kenneth “Butch” Flint, Second-Generation Beam Man By Debbie Shocair When you take the tour of Jim Beam’s distillery property in Clermont, KY, one thing that you soon notice is that nearly every employee has a smile for visitors, and not just any old “oh, you’re here touring and I’m supposed to appear friendly” kind of smile. It’s ...

By Richard Thomas   Although Walsh Whiskey has been around for quite a while with its sourced brands The Irishman and Writer’s Tears, it was only a little over a year ago that they opened their County Carlow distillery to great fanfare. The plans of Bernard and Rosemary Walsh for the plant are ambitious, to say the least. Not only ...

By Debbie Shocair I’ve been writing about whiskey for approximately a bazillion years. Sometimes I enjoy thinking of myself as, in the way I put it, “sort of a big deal” in whiskey circles. That’s what I like to think. And then I knew better. I met a real “big deal.” Fred Noe, seventh-generation master distiller at Jim Beam and ...

By Richard Thomas “Women in whisky” as a thing has become almost passe. There are so many women’s whisk(e)y clubs around the world that I often wonder why anyone thinks of female enthusiasts as novel, and a surge of women have taken leading creative roles across the industry in recent years. Behind the latter development were a few trailblazers, who ...