Kentucky Bourbon's Next Generation Comes of Age

Distillers like to say they're laying down whiskies for the next
generation, but in many cases, it's their next generation who
will be bottling those whiskies. That tradition is being passed
on now in the Noe and Russell families, as Freddie Noe and Bruce
Russell take on more and more responsibilities at the Jim Beam
and Wild Turkey distilleries. Freddie is the eighth generation of
his branch of the Beam family tree, and will eventually take over
for his father Fred Noe as Beam's master distiller. Bruce is the
son of Wild Turkey Master Distiller Eddie Russell, who had to
work for decades under his father, the legendary Jimmy
Russell...who celebrated his 67th anniversary at Wild Turkey this
past Friday. We'll catch up with Freddie and Bruce on this week's
WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, it's Kentucky Bourbon Festival
week in Bardstown, but this year's festival is being hit by both
Covid-19 and a strike at Heaven Hill that's forced that
distillery to pull out of festival events.  We'll have those
stories and in our Behind the Label segment, we'll remember one
of whisky's unsung heroes who passed away the other day.