The Whisky World Copes With Covid-19's Impact

With tens of thousands of bar and restaurant workers around the
world laid off because of mandatory bar and restaurant closings
due to the Covid-19 pandemic, some bar owners are resorting to
drastic measures to support their teams during the crisis. Bill
Thomas of Washington, DC's Jack Rose Dining Saloon and his
partners have been selling off the whiskey bar's legendary
library of nearly 3,000 bottles - either by the full bottle or
single-serving drams - while they evaluate their persona
collections to see what makes the cut for the bar's wall when it
reopens. We'll talk with Bill on WhiskyCast In-Depth, along with
Meredith Meyer Grelli of Pittsburgh's Wigle Whiskey. She's
performing the typical small business owner's chainsaw juggling
routine of switching from distilling and a tasting room to
e-commerce sales while trying to find out why her bank dropped
the ball on processing Wigle's paperwork for a federal small
business relief program. In the news, the rash of
coronavirus-related whisky event cancellations is spreading to
Kentucky, where some of this fall's major Bourbon events have
already been cancelled while the Kentucky Bourbon Festival's new
CEO is hoping to go ahead with Bardstown's big party. Bourbon
Street in New Orleans will be quieter this July with the
cancellation of Tales of the Cocktail, and in Scotland, police
are investigating an attack by hackers that targeted a major
online whisky auction this week.