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Whiskey@Work
by Homeslice Audio Network
Whiskey@Work isn’t just another whiskey podcast; it’s your backstage pass to the world of whiskey without the snobbery. Hosts Mark Houston and Rob Henry pour up stories, laughs, and honest takes on bourbon, scotch, rye, tequila, and anything barrel-aged that crosses their glasses. Whether you’re a casual sipper or a seasoned collector, we bring you deep dives into distilleries, whiskey history, celebrity bottles, tasting adventures, and industry mysteries, all with a big side of humor. New episodes drop every Thursday morning. Pull up a glass and join the fun. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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BEST OF: Liquid to Lips
This was one of our favorite conversations with master distiller Allisa Henley of AJ Bond. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Loophole in the Bottle
Rob and Mark crack open Heaven Hill's brand new Double Mash, a nine year bottled in bond that technically shouldn't exist, and spend the next hour proving why that's the best kind of whiskey story. They dig into the 1897 law that created bottled in bond in the first place, the century old…
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Idaho Highlands
A busted toilet, a twelve foot ladder, and a Sunday morning that didn't go as planned. We get into that story first, then pour a bottle of Warfield, an Idaho single malt with an organic mashbill that Rob brought back from Boise. Copper stills, dessert like sweetness, and a price tag that makes it...
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Tariffs, Tomatin, and Tim Hortons
Rob and Mark are back with a fresh batch of Whiskey@Work, and this one starts with Mark getting mistaken for a Texan by a parking attendant in Winnipeg. From there, the guys dig into what's really happening with Canadian liquor shelves after a year and a half of tariff drama... Manitoba pulling...
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Benromach's Nine Lives
Houston and Rob crack open the Benromach 15, a Speyside Scotch from a distillery that spent more of its life shut down than running. They walk through the wild backstory (a Scotch smuggler who named his boats things Coast Guard radios couldn't pronounce, a family that waited decades for a...
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The Chemist's Grandson
Rob and Mark are back from a long weekend (margaritas may or may not have been involved), and this time they've got company. John Willard, of Willard Water fame, finally shows up after years of empty promises. He brought whiskey from Tel Aviv, four bottles from Milk & Honey Distillery, a kosher,...
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Empty Nester Strength
Episode three hundred calls for something worth the milestone, so we crack open Jim Gaffigan's Father Time bourbon at its highest proof yet. We get into celebrity whiskey, the term collectors use when fame outshines what's actually in the bottle, and the one autographed bottle in the office…
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Cowboys, Carnivals, and Cocktails
Whiskey@Work heads out to the Central States Fair and Rodeo for a ten a.m. pour with Ron Jefferies, straight from the Ford Tailgate Party tent. They crack open Pendleton, the fair's longtime whiskey partner, and get into why cowboys stay so loyal to their sponsors, why the fair always lands the...
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Whiskey Non Grata
Rob and Mark try something new after almost three hundred episodes: a live blind tasting where they never say what's in the glass. No brand, no history, no mash bill, nothing but proof and a state of origin. They dig into the 1976 wine tasting that flipped the industry on its head, a college…
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Jack's Blood Relatives
We record this one out of a shipping crate at Sturgis, which tells you everything about the week we've had. This is close to twenty years into the Jack Daniel's tasting on the hill, and the guys in Lynchburg still know us by name. We get into the Squire program, why one of our regulars has the…
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Rye, Road Trips, and Old Grand-Dad
Rob and Mark crack open a bottle of Old Grandad Bonded, the road trip whiskey that rode along with John Steinbeck across the country and earned a reputation as a natural biker's bourbon, strong enough to still taste like something and cheap enough not to sweat losing it. They dig into the Basil...
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Do Epic [Redacted]
We're drinking a whiskey out of Spokane with a name we can't quite say on the air. Brown Family Spirits calls it Do Epic [redacted], and yes, the naughty word is right there on the bottle. Turns out the name comes from a grandfather whose life story might be true, might be embellished, and either...
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Citizens Against Everything
A hockey player from New Hampshire grows corn on Kauai and decides to make bourbon. Simple enough, right? Then the birds show up. Then the neighbors. Then the liquor commission. This week we're drinking Kapahi, a Hawaiian whisky (no e, we checked) tied to a fully built distillery on the island…
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Down Old Pali Road
A friend of ours went to Hawaii and, since he doesn't drink, we gave him a mission: hit a liquor store and grab whatever's local. He came back with Old Pali Road, which gets called the original Hawaiian whiskey. That claim sent Mark digging, and he surfaced with a story about an escaped…
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The Wild Geese
A bakery, a bucket of paint, and a horse cart. Those three things somehow explain the Irish whiskey in our glasses this week. We got into Green Spot Château Montelena, and the story behind it wanders a lot further than the pour. There's a family shop that's kept one whiskey alive for seven...
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Talons Out
We've mentioned Eagle Rare on the show plenty, but we'd never sat down and asked the obvious question. Why does this bourbon even exist? Turns out it wasn't some heartfelt heritage project. It was built on purpose, with a target in mind, and the strategy behind it is honestly kind of genius. Then...
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Liquid to Lips
Allisa Henley and John Lunn talked every single day for twenty years. Two stills, two personalities, one whiskey that fit together the way the two of them did. Then John was gone before he ever got to taste the finished blend. This week we're sitting down with Allisa, master distiller behind...
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The Blood and The Oath
Ninety-eight point six. The number's been stamped on every Blood Oath bottle since the line started, and there's a strange little reason why. We poured the Pact Nine and the brand-new Pact Twelve for our first crack at this series, and somewhere between a German doctor with a foot-long…
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The Dog Years of Bourbon
Two New Riff bourbons that are identical down to the mash bill, with one exception: one aged four years, the other eight. So we turned it into a blind taste test. One of us poured, the other guessed, and guess who walked away mad? We also get into why a year in a Kentucky rickhouse counts like…
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Two Miles Up
We've reached part three of our Colorado run, and this week it's Breckenridge Bourbon, the bottle sitting on every liquor store shelf around here. We get into the founder's story, a radiologist pulling brutal hours who was standing knee-deep in snowmelt one day and walked away convinced he should...
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Bottled at Elevation
This week we're sipping Tin Cup Fourteen, the Mount Sneffels release, and following a thread that ties straight back to last week's pour. Same Colorado founder, a different bottle, and a story that wanders from a ghost town saloon at ten thousand feet to a Jules Verne novel that somehow ended up…
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The Firefighter and the Physicist
Mark heads to Colorado and comes back with a bottle of Stranahan's Distiller's Experimental Series: Cherry Soda, a three-cask finish you won't find on most shelves, with only 1,400 bottles made. The backstory behind Stranahan's involves a volunteer firefighter, a physicist who liked dynamite a...
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The Lucky Sprig
A Highland warrior in 1544 leans off his horse, plucks a tiny white flower, and tucks it into his bonnet. His clan wins the battle. Centuries later, that same lucky bloom ends up on a bottle in our glasses. This week, Rob and Houston pour White Heather 15, the blended scotch resurrected by Billy...
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The One Percent Loophole
It's Cinco de Mayo, so Rob and Mark are skipping the bourbon and drinking tequila their boss brought back from Mexico while admittedly day drunk. He wanted them to find out if he got taken. He probably did. The Campo Segrado añejo smells amazing and tastes like a mint julep, which sends them down…
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Proper Business: The Rise, Fall, and Rebrand of Proper No. Twelve
Proper No. Twelve has a wild origin story and it involves the Mountain from Game of Thrones, a UFC fighter with a handshake deal, and a buddy who walked away from millions out of loyalty. We cover the whole messy saga before cracking open the brand new Proper 12-13, a 13-year Irish single malt...
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The Bottle Finds You
You're standing in a liquor store, staring at a wall of bottles. You have no idea what to grab. That feeling? That's exactly why pourmore.com exists. This week we sat down with Greg Cohen, the marketing guy at Pourmore, a subscription spirits club that ships hand-selected bottles straight to your...
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Mellow as Moonlight
George Dickel isn't a name you hear as often as his neighbor Jack, but maybe it should be. The guy was a German immigrant, a cobbler turned whiskey salesman, who landed in Nashville in the 1840s and decided limestone water was his whole personality. He never distilled a drop himself, but he…
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The Peat is Different Here
Rob and Houston crack open a bottle that's been sitting on the shelf way too long. Highland Park 12 Viking Honour. From Orkney, a tiny island ten miles off the northern tip of Scotland where the wind blows so hard you can tell what religion a guy is by his travel pants. The whole thing was…
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Drifting Into Something Good
Rob and Mark crack open a bottle that's been sitting in the dark for a couple years in Houston's basement. This week they're pouring Driftless Glen Single Barrel Bourbon from Baraboo, Wisconsin. A double gold winner from the San Francisco Spirits Competition that most of the whiskey world still...
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Six Barrels, One Pick: 2XO Gem of Kentucky
Rob and Mark sit down with Ray and Patrick from Johnson Brothers and Jason Dvorak from Mr. Liquor in Rapid City for something genuinely special. They're barrel picking a Two XO Gem of Kentucky, and if you know what that means, you already know why this episode matters. If you don't, they'll catch...
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The Bourbon Named by Drunk Hunters
This one starts with a near heart attack… a very expensive bottle of Wild Turkey Master’s Keep almost takes a dive off the table, and somehow that sets the tone perfectly. From there, it turns into a laid-back deep dive into Wild Turkey’s surprisingly scrappy origin story, why the everyday stuff...
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BONUS POUR: Inside the Mountain West Whiskey Festival
In this special bonus episode of Whiskey@Work, Mark Houston takes you inside the Mountain West Whiskey Festival at the historic Hotel Alex Johnson in Rapid City. Instead of the usual studio conversation, this episode walks through the festival itself, featuring conversations with whiskey...
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Keep Walking
This week on Whiskey@Work, the guys pour a few glasses and wander through the story behind one of the most recognizable names in Scotch. The conversation starts with the surprisingly scrappy origins of Johnnie Walker, a grocery store kid who blended tea before blending whisky, and the clever…
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The Bourbon Up North
On this episode of Whiskey@Work, Rob and Mark sit down with master blender Brad Benson from Little Round Still in Minnesota and dig into what happens when a small distillery decides to do things its own way. Brad walks through the unlikely path that took him from whiskey enthusiast to master...
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Cluck Around and Find Out
What starts as a casual catch-up turns into a full-on taste test showdown when Justin from Windsor Block crashes the studio mid-recording. On the table? A 20-year Canadian rye with a name you won’t forget and a flavor profile that sends the guys spiraling into childhood firecracker memories.…
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The Hazmat Experiment
This week on Whiskey@Work, we climb way past safe territory and straight into hazmat country. Rob and Mark post up at the Windsor Bar with Justin Henrichsen and crack bottles that most airlines would politely confiscate. We’re talking 140 proof and up. A Canadian cask strength that drinks...
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From Bonded to Better
On this episode of Whiskey@Work, Rob and Marc pour a glass of Doc Holliday 7-Year Straight Bourbon and immediately realize something important… time matters. A lot. The conversation drifts through bourbon’s recent sales slump, the rise of canned cocktails, Four Roses changing hands, and why some...
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Pour One Out for the O.K. Corral
The Black Hills Stock Show is in town, so Rob and Mark cowboy things up with a bottle that feels ripped straight out of Tombstone. This week, it’s Doc Holliday Bottled in Bond from the World Whiskey Society, a whiskey built on story, character, and a whole lot of attitude. Along the way, they dig...
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Whiskey Deserves a Building Like This
In this episode of Whiskey@Work, Rob and Mark sit down with Mitch McKeithan from the Alex Johnson Hotel to talk whiskey cycles, allocation games, and why relationships matter more than hype. They dig into how the bourbon world got here, where it’s headed, and why the Mountain West Whiskey…
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Judging Bourbon by the Bottle
This week on Whiskey@Work, Rob and Mark crack open a bottle that looks like it belongs next to a designer lamp instead of a dusty rickhouse. Frank August Case Study No. 6 is all about first impressions, from a minimalist bottle to a surprisingly bold pour. Along the way, the guys wrestle with...
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Rectifiers, Rebels, and Real Whiskey
E.H. Taylor wasn’t friendly, flexible, or easy to work with. He was stubborn, loud, and obsessed with one thing… killing fake whiskey. In this episode of Whiskey@Work, we dig into the man behind the bottle, the rise of rectified whiskey, why the Bottled-in-Bond Act even exists, and how one...
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The Vow of the Peacock
New year, bad decisions. Rob and Mark kick off 2026 by talking about why New Year’s resolutions usually fall apart, how ancient civilizations handled fresh starts, and why sometimes leaning into the wrong idea feels oddly right. Along the way, they crack open Darts from Lasso Motel Whiskey, a…
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FAN FAVORITE: The Marshmallow Episode
Aired back in November 2024, this episode turned into a full-on fan favorite, and for good reason. What starts as an election day hang turns into a surprisingly deep, slightly ridiculous dive into marshmallows. Yeah… marshmallows. From ancient Egypt to campfire s’mores, the guys unpack the…
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Whiskey We Loved, Whiskey We Survived
Rob and Mark pour their way back through 2025, from Ireland-only Redbreast and that Seahorse-in-a-perfume-bottle, to minty Dragon’s Milk, Fiesta Fest tequilas, Lucky Bastard single malt, and the Jack Daniels Heritage Barrel that vanished in record time. They swap stories about charity raffles...
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King of Canyon Lake and the Screaming Pulaskis
Rob hangs out with Justin Hendrickson, the owner of Windsor Block Bar and a volunteer firefighter who somehow balances whiskey, community events and a whole lot of chaos. They crack open Wild Turkey Triumph rye, dig into the wild Nemo Volunteer Fire Department bourbon raffle packed with Pappy 20,...
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The Exact Moment Whiskey Is Born
Whiskey@Work hits pause on age statements and barrel talk and zooms in on the exact second whiskey is born. Rob and Mark dig into heads, hearts, and tails, how craft distillers make those tiny, risky cuts by taste and smell, and why big column stills handle it a whole different way. Then they…
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Phantom Kangaroos
Mark and Rob fall down a kangaroo rabbit hole after spotting the boxing 'roo on a bottle of Larrikin Bourbon. From jellybean-sized joeys and deadly kicks to phantom kangaroo sightings in places that definitely are not Australia, this one hops all over the map before landing back in Kentucky. The...
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The Blanton’s Episode At Last
In this Whiskey@Work pour, Rob and Mark finally crack open Blanton’s after more than 260 episodes and give it the spotlight it probably knew it deserved all along. They get into the life of Albert Bacon Blanton, the Kentucky colonel who climbed from teenage distillery worker to the guy steering...
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Toasted to Perfection
Rob and Mark crack open Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Heritage Barrel Toasted Barrel and dive into what makes a barrel toasted vs. charred, from Roman casks and medieval coopers to the alligator char and modern finishing moves. Michter’s, Elijah Craig, Woodford, Westland, and St. Augustine all make...
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Drinking with Dragons
The hunt is over. After five years of chasing down a bottle, Mark and Rob finally crack open Dragon’s Milk Bottled in Bond, a bourbon born from one of the most legendary barrel aged stouts in craft beer. From Michigan brewers to whiskey makers, New Holland Brewing’s journey sparks a wild...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Whiskey@Work isn’t just another whiskey podcast; it’s your backstage pass to the world of whiskey without the snobbery. Hosts Mark Houston and Rob Henry pour up stories, laughs, and honest takes on bourbon, scotch, rye, tequila, and anything barrel-aged that crosses their glasses. Whether you’re a casual sipper or a seasoned collector, we bring you deep dives into distilleries, whiskey history, celebrity bottles, tasting adventures, and industry mysteries, all with a big side of humor. New episodes drop every Thursday morning. Pull up a glass and join the fun.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Whiskey@Work isn’t just another whiskey podcast; it’s your backstage pass to the world of whiskey without the snobbery. Hosts Mark Houston and Rob Henry pour up stories, laughs, and honest takes on bourbon, scotch, rye, tequila, and anything barrel-aged that crosses their glasses. Whether you’re a...
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