Signed, Sealed, & Delivered: A Look at Contract Distilling

What do you call a distillery with no brands of its own? A
contract (or custom) distiller creates whiskies for its clients,
and many of Kentucky's largest distillers have often sold excess
capacity by distilling for others. Bardstown Bourbon Company
pioneered the current wave of contract distillers in Kentucky,
and co-founder David Mandell is now one of the partners behind
the new Whiskey House distillery. It will focus exclusively on
custom distilling for its clients, and David Mandell will explain
why on this week's WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, Midleton
Distillery's brand-new visitors center is closed after this
week's flooding caused extensive damage, while time is running
out to avoid a return to tariffs on exports of American whiskies
to Europe.