Speed Rack: Women Shaking Cocktails for a Cause (WhiskyCast Episode 707: June 17, 2017)

There are plenty of cocktail competitions for bartenders, but
Speed Rack was one of the first to highlight women working behind
the bar. Lynette Marrero and Ivy Mix founded Speed Rack in 2012
to not only empower women in the cocktail culture, but also to
raise money for breast cancer research and charities. They've
succeeded at both over the last six years, and will be staging
the first Speed Rack competition in Australia next month. We'll
talk with Lynette Marrero on WhiskyCast In-Depth, and while we're
talking about cocktail competitions, we'll check in with Lynn
House as the eight regional winners in Heaven Hill's 2018
Bartender of the Year competition gather in Sea Island, Georgia
for this week's finals. In the news, China has joined the growing
list of US trading partners targeting American-made whiskies for
punitive tariffs as the trade war expands. Kentucky's Castle
& Key Distillery has successfully defended a trademark
infringement suit over its use of the original Old Taylor name
for its distillery, and on Behind the Label, we'll look at the
tricky question of when whiskies made in one country can be
labeled as coming from another country.