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EPISODE · Mar 20, 2026 · 30 MIN

Pickle Barrels and Blue Corn: Inside Bluegrass Distillers' Unconventional Craft

from Whiskey Shenanigans

Ben Franzini of Bluegrass Distillers grows his own blue corn, finishes whiskey in toasted and Spanish oak barrels, and once ran a pickle-barrel whiskey experiment. In this episode, we talk farm-to-barrel distilling and the race to quality in American whiskey.

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