A First for Craft Distilling

Craft distillers dream of not only having their whiskies
alongside those of the major global brands, but outselling them.
For the Quint family of Iowa's Cedar Ridge Winery &
Distillery, that dream has become a reality. Earlier this month,
Iowa's state liquor agency released sales data showing that Cedar
Ridge Iowa Straight Bourbon was the top-selling Bourbon in the
state over the previous 12 months - beating the big Bourbons for
the first time. We'll talk with Murphy Quint, who was a teenager
when his parents opened Cedar Ridge 15 years ago and is now head
distiller. In the news, time is running out for Congress and the
Trump Administration to extend a critical federal excise tax cut
for distillers. We'll have that story and the rest of the week's
whisky news on this edition of WhiskyCast!