Good Friends and a Dram of Whisky! (Episode 763: April 14, 2019)

Lew Bryson and Martin Duffy take their whisky seriously...but not
much else! When they joined us at the recent American Whiskey
Convention in Philadelphia, the laughter was a perfect complement
to serious whisky discussion about the sources of whisky flavor,
the growth of craft distilling, and why our discussion was taking
place just feet away from valuable Egyptian artifacts in the
University of Pennsylvania Museum. OK, that last part wasn't so
serious, but it did help Lew explain how he came to meet
legendary whisky writer Michael Jackson for the first time at the
Penn Museum. We'll also talk with Dick Stoll, the veteran
Pennsylvania distiller who made one of the Holy Grails for
whiskey lovers...the 16-year-old A.H. Hirsch Reserve Bourbon. In
the news, this was a week that won't go down in history at The
Macallan, while Craigellachie is bringing a 51-year-old single
malt to New York City - and pour it for free! Four Roses has
completed its $55 million expansion project in Kentucky, and
Woodford Reserve's Chris Morris has to figure out how to get a
special barrel down from one of the historic spires at Churchill
Downs in time for the Kentucky Derby.