The Whiskey Ring Podcast

THE SINGLE BARRELS ARE HERE! IF YOU'RE NOT ON PATREON YET, GET ON IT NOW OR YOU'RE LIKELY TO MISS OUT

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Ok, here's a new one - how often do you co…

This week, we're back to whisky! Still without an E, but whisky nonetheless! 

We're going to the farthest east coast of Australia, the Gold Coast and Cape Byron to visit Cape Byron Distillery. 

Found…

We're taking another diversion from whiskey this week to talk rum! I'm joined by my favorite rum guru, Eric Kaye, to talk Holmes Cay Rum, single barrels, and origin series rums from around the world.…

Let's be honest - if you don't know who or what Jack Daniel's is, you probably aren't old enough to listen to this podcast. 

ANYWAY - I'm thrilled to be joined by Lexie Phillips, Assistant Distiller.…

Part 2 of our episode with Dread River Distilling in Alabama gets down to the nuts and bolts with new distiller Joshua Goins. Founder John Cubelic stole Joshua down to Birmingham to take over the dis…

Back to whiskey! Driving down to Brooklyn, we're visiting New York Distilling Co. (NYDC) with founder Allen Katz. 

NYDC was one of the first distilleries back in NY after the craft movement started. …

I know what you're thinking: Gin? That bitter, juniper-heavy, cocktail drink? 

Yes, gin. But gin is so much more than a mixing spirit. 

Gins have been a low-key favorite spirit of mine for a while no…

In the last two years, how many products have we seen that contained 15-, 20-, even 30-year-old Canadian whisky? A dozen? two dozen? 

Also - want to know how buffalo horn buttons help Jason move whis…

We've reached it! Episode 100! 

For Episode 100, I wanted to feature a distillery I initially wasn't sold on. I wanted to highlight the importance of retrying products every few years, especially for…

Dread River is here! Our first episode in Alabama, and it doesn't disappoint. 

Dread River was founded by John Cubelic less than a decade ago. With founding partner Jeff (a doctor with Andrews Sports…

Holladay Distilling burst onto the scene in 2022 with a 6-year-old Bottled-In-Bond Bourbon that won Best First Release at the 2022 Whiskey Ring Awards. It was a fantastic pour that beat out several o…

Wolfburn Distillery has a two-century history on the far north coast of Scotland - interrupted, of course. First founded in 1821, it languished in disuse for nearly 150 years before being revived in …

Plenty of distilleries and NDPs take someone else's distillate, slap a label on it, and sell it. I hate that. Others take the distillate - aged or new make - and do something with it, either a weird …

Angus MacRaild and I get together to talk about his independent bottling venture - Decadent Drinks - and the blog that he started nearly 10 years ago, WhiskySponge. 

Decadent Drinks was virtually unk…

Purchase your sample kit here for the virtual private Riachi tasting by June 17th to ensure delivery! 

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Surprise, surprise: another connection made at that center of the NYC whiskey …

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Please welcome back returning guest Ari Sussman to talk about Whiskey JYPSI an…

Purchase your sample kit here for the virtual private Riachi tasting by June 10th to ensure delivery! 

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Colby Frey's family has been farming in Nevada for 165 years, so no opportunis…

Purchase your sample kit here for the virtual private Riachi tasting by June 10th to ensure delivery! 

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Finding Riachi was a happy accident, and boy am I happy it happened. Riachi ha…

Bonus episode #5! Welcome back to Devin Ershow and Chase Langdon of American Mash & Grain and Borrowed Page American Whiskey. 

I loved Borrowed Page Volume 1 (2022). It blended four distilleries and …

We're finally back to whiskey, I promise!

This is a classic episode - a distillery making single malt in the corn capital of the US. Don't worry, they make a damn good bourbon, too, but my first tast…