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Whiskey@Work
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Whiskey@Work isn’t just another whiskey podcast; it’s your backstage pass to the world of whiskey without the snobbery. Hosts Mark Houston and Rob Henry pour up stories, laughs, and honest takes on bourbon, scotch, rye, tequila, and anything barrel-aged that crosses their glasses. Whether you’re a casual sipper or a seasoned collector, we bring you deep dives into distilleries, whiskey history, celebrity bottles, tasting adventures, and industry mysteries, all with a big side of humor. New episodes drop every Thursday morning. Pull up a glass and join the fun.
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Citizens Against Everything
6d ago00:25:46Tap to summarizeA hockey player from New Hampshire grows corn on Kauai and decides to make bourbon. Simple enough, right? Then the birds show up. Then the neighbors. Then the liquor commission. This week we're drinking Kapahi, a Hawaiian whisky (no e, we checked) tied to a fully built distillery on the island that has never made a single drop. We dig into the whole strange story, the spice that snuck up on both of us, and why this bottle logs more travel miles than it has any right to. Pour a glass and come figure this one out with us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Down Old Pali Road
2w ago00:25:00Tap to summarizeA friend of ours went to Hawaii and, since he doesn't drink, we gave him a mission: hit a liquor store and grab whatever's local. He came back with Old Pali Road, which gets called the original Hawaiian whiskey. That claim sent Mark digging, and he surfaced with a story about an escaped Australian convict and a still built from two whale blubber pots. Two Marine vets are behind this bottle, the mash bill leans hard on corn, and the water is filtered through volcanic rock for generations, or so the label says. Rob and Mark pour batch twenty-eight and figure out what's really Hawaiian about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Wild Geese
3w ago00:26:06Tap to summarizeA bakery, a bucket of paint, and a horse cart. Those three things somehow explain the Irish whiskey in our glasses this week. We got into Green Spot Château Montelena, and the story behind it wanders a lot further than the pour. There's a family shop that's kept one whiskey alive for seven generations, a handshake deal that saved it from disappearing for good, and a crew of Irish exiles who wound up embarrassing France at its own game. We're not going to tell you how a Napa winery loops all the way back to a shop in Dublin. That's the part you'll want to hear for yourself. Grab something good and listen up! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Talons Out
4w ago00:27:23Tap to summarizeWe've mentioned Eagle Rare on the show plenty, but we'd never sat down and asked the obvious question. Why does this bourbon even exist? Turns out it wasn't some heartfelt heritage project. It was built on purpose, with a target in mind, and the strategy behind it is honestly kind of genius.Then there's what it grew into. A ten year bourbon people actually hunt for, sitting around forty-five bucks, that neither of us can find a single bad word for.Pour a glass and hang out with Rob and Mark. The reason it was made is the best part. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Liquid to Lips
Jun 2500:41:13Tap to summarizeAllisa 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, how that bond ended up baked into the bottle itself, and why she's convinced she can change what people expect when they hear "Tennessee whiskey."There's a name story , a quiet little tribute hiding on the label, and a phrase Allisa really ought to trademark before somebody else does.Pour something and settle in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Blood and The Oath
Jun 1800:28:52Tap to summarizeNinety-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.
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The Dog Years of Bourbon
Jun 1100:27:36Tap to summarizeTwo 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.
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Two Miles Up
Jun 400:24:56Tap to summarizeWe'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 your glass. There's a heavyweight announcement out of Tennessee that dropped the morning we recorded, a t-shirt that almost got thrown out of a church, and a question we kept circling back to: what does this whiskey taste like before anyone blends it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Bottled at Elevation
May 2800:24:54Tap to summarizeThis 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 on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Firefighter and the Physicist
May 2100:27:26Tap to summarizeMark 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 (it rhymes with hickory).Pour something good and settle in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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