From Midleton to Minnesota

This Thursday will be Brian Nation's first St. Patrick's Day
outside of Ireland. The veteran distiller joined O'Shaughnessy
Distilling in Minneapolis last year after years at Ireland's
legendary Midleton Distillery, and as he tells us on this week's
WhiskyCast In-Depth, "it was a cold winter." Brian and his family
survived the cold, though, and he joined us from their spring
break vacation in a much warmer Arizona. In the news, Kentucky
lawmakers are a step closer to protecting private barrel picks,
while Bardstown Bourbon's founders have cashed out in a private
equity sale. Diageo will invest millions to build a new
carbon-neutral Crown Royal distillery in Ontario, while the
spirits giant paid a £1.2 million GBP fine in Scotland for
violating environmental laws over a six-year period. We'll also
look at one more aspect of sustainable distilling...what to do
with the leftover spent grains when the cattle farmers don't need
them.