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Allisa Henley and John Lunn talked every single day for twenty years. Two stills, two personalities, one whiskey that fit together the way the two of them did. Then John was gone before he ever got to taste the finished blend.This week we're sitting down with Allisa, master distiller behind Sazerac's first Tennessee whiskey. She didn't take the usual road in, no chemistry degree, a business background, and years of learning the craft with her hands instead of a textbook. We get into what it means to carry something across the line that was supposed to be a two-person job,...

Ninety-eight point six. The number's been stamped on every Blood Oath bottle since the line started, and there's a strange little reason why. We poured the Pact Nine and the brand-new Pact Twelve for our first crack at this series, and somewhere between a German doctor with a foot-long thermometer and Houston's backpack full of medical gear, we got into what makes these blends so hard to walk away from. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two New Riff bourbons that are identical down to the mash bill, with one exception: one aged four years, the other eight. So we turned it into a blind taste test. One of us poured, the other guessed, and guess who walked away mad? We also get into why a year in a Kentucky rickhouse counts like dog years, the fifty-two-year-old bottle of Jack we once cracked open, and the one rule New Riff had to break to release the eight year at all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've reached part three of our Colorado run, and this week it's Breckenridge Bourbon, the bottle sitting on every liquor store shelf around here. We get into the founder's story, a radiologist pulling brutal hours who was standing knee-deep in snowmelt one day and walked away convinced he should bet his house, his savings, and a chunk of his kids' college fund on a whiskey hunch. We talk about what happens to a barrel aged nearly two miles up in the Rockies, why the angels take such a big cut at that altitude, and how that shapes what lands in...

This week we're sipping Tin Cup Fourteen, the Mount Sneffels release, and following a thread that ties straight back to last week's pour. Same Colorado founder, a different bottle, and a story that wanders from a ghost town saloon at ten thousand feet to a Jules Verne novel that somehow ended up on a Colorado license plate.There's a high-rye mash bill aged fourteen years, a tiny splash of single malt hiding inside, and a mountain named after an Icelandic volcano because a surveyor in 1874 was apparently really into science fiction.Pour something interesting. We'll do the climbing for you. Hosted...

Mark heads to Colorado and comes back with a bottle of Stranahan's Distiller's Experimental Series: Cherry Soda, a three-cask finish you won't find on most shelves, with only 1,400 bottles made.The backstory behind Stranahan's involves a volunteer firefighter, a physicist who liked dynamite a little too much, and a barn fire that somehow turned into one of America's best-selling single malts. Rob and Mark pour a glass, dig into the new American single malt category, and try to figure out if cherry cola belongs in whiskey.Also covered: walls of Weller, Denver drivers, and the most interesting word in the episode...

A Highland warrior in 1544 leans off his horse, plucks a tiny white flower, and tucks it into his bonnet. His clan wins the battle. Centuries later, that same lucky bloom ends up on a bottle in our glasses.This week, Rob and Houston pour White Heather 15, the blended scotch resurrected by Billy Walker (the guy who turned Glenallachie into a legend). Three casks, two countries, one Highland fairy theory we won't spoil here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Cinco de Mayo, so Rob and Mark are skipping the bourbon and drinking tequila their boss brought back from Mexico while admittedly day drunk. He wanted them to find out if he got taken. He probably did.The Campo Segrado añejo smells amazing and tastes like a mint julep, which sends them down a rabbit hole on the four additives that can legally go into a tequila bottle without showing up on the label. Then there's the couple in Guadalajara who built a website to expose it all and got their house raided for it.After that, El Padrino mezcal. It's...

Proper No. Twelve has a wild origin story and it involves the Mountain from Game of Thrones, a UFC fighter with a handshake deal, and a buddy who walked away from millions out of loyalty. We cover the whole messy saga before cracking open the brand new Proper 12-13, a 13-year Irish single malt that's either a redemption arc or a sixty-dollar disappointment depending on who you ask. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You're standing in a liquor store, staring at a wall of bottles. You have no idea what to grab. That feeling? That's exactly why pourmore.com exists.This week we sat down with Greg Cohen, the marketing guy at Pourmore, a subscription spirits club that ships hand-selected bottles straight to your door. We're talking tequila-finished bourbon, American single malt, and a cask strength rye that Greg swears doesn't drink at 121 proof. He's not wrong.We dig into how Pourmore actually works, how they navigate the nightmare of shipping laws across 45 states, and what it's like to build a community around whiskey...