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The Whiskey Lore® Podcast, 100 episodes.

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🏛️ HALL OF LEGENDS: Does the Whiskey with My Name Represent the Real Me?

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🎙️ The Whiskey Six | Does Kentucky Need Another Contract Distiller?

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📘BOURBON 4b: Did Bourbon Whiskey Have Its Roots in Pennsylvania?

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📘BOURBON 4a: Did America's First Army Help Spread American Whiskey?

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🎙️ Spy Trail Distillery: Talking Revolutionary War Spies and Black Tea Bourbon

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🎙️ Redwood Empire: The building of whiskey flavor in California's wine country

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🏛️ HALL OF LEGENDS: Straight to 51%

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Ep. 143 - HIGHLAND PARK DISTILLERY: Scotland in a Bottle

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🏛️ HALL OF LEGENDS: Gilded Age Game Changer

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🏛️ HALL OF LEGENDS: Irish Double Impact

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📘BOURBON 3b: Did Bourbon Get Its Name from Barrels Marked "Old Bourbon"?

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📘BOURBON 3a: Did a Congressman Reveal the Inventor of Bourbon Whiskey?

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📘BOURBON 2: The Birth of Bourbon

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📘BOURBON 1b: Before Bourbon, Kentucke Country's War for Survival

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🎙️ Ep. 142 - HARTFIELD & CO DISTILLERY: Bringing Bourbon Back to Bourbon County

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📘BOURBON 1a: Did Kentucky's First Settlers Really Make Whiskey?

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🎙️ Ep. 141 - McCONNELL'S IRISH WHISKEY: New Home at Belfast's Crumlin Road Gaol

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🎙️ Ep. 140 - OLD 55 DISTILLERY: 100% Indiana Farm to Glass

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📘The Lost History of Bourbon: Why Its Real Origin Story Matters

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🎙️ Ep. 139 - LOST LANTERN: Blending 50 States of Bourbon

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🎙️ Ep. 138 - JOHN PAWLUK OF TWISTED COW: Distilling Curiosity and Asking "Why?"

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🎙️ Ep. 137 - SPIRITS OF LAWRENCEBURG DOCUMENTARY: With Bo Cumberland and Jerry Daniels

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✈️ WF093 to FLORIDA: Indian River Distillery and Treasure Coast Spirits Festival

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📚 Four Roses: Did Seagram's Really Ruin a Great Whiskey Brand?

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✈️ WF092 to GEORGIA: Thirteenth Colony Distillery

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📚 Four Roses: How Did a Whiskey Brand Survive Prohibition and Thrive?

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✈️ WF091 to ALABAMA: Clyde May's Conecuh Ridge Distillery

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📚 Four Roses: Did a Corsage of Red Roses Inspire the Name?

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✈️ WF090 to ALABAMA: John Emerald Distilling Company

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✈️ WF089 to TENNESSEE: Chattanooga Whiskey's Experimental Distillery

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🎙️ Ep. 136 - TALISKER DISTILLERY: A Taste of History with Ewan Morgan

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✈️🌟 WF088 to Scotland: Author Angela Youngman

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📚 Is There Really a Right Way to Spell Whiskey?

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🎙️ Ep. 135 - SESPE CREEK DISTILLERY: John Campbell's Move From Scotch to California Bourbon

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🎙️ Ep. 134 - JERRY DANIELS: 7 People Who SHOULD be in the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame

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🎙️ Ep. 133 - RIVERBEND MALT HOUSE: Diving into the Malting Process

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📚 The Whiskey Law That Nearly Started a Civil War

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🎙️ Ep. 132 - WHISKEY LORE AND THE BOURBON ROAD: A Special Simulcasted Edition

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🎙️ Ep. 131 - LOCH LOMOND: Scotland's Most Flexible Distillery

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📚 Was Jack Daniel's Really America's First Registered Distillery?

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🎙️ Ep. 130 - GRANDADDY MIMMS DISTILLERY: Tommy Townsend Talks Waylon, his Grandaddy's Recipe, Sorghum, and High Proof Moonshine

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📙 What Did We Get Wrong About Jack Daniel and Uncle Nearest?

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🎙️ Ep. 129 - The ESTATE WHISKEY ALLIANCE: What it is and how it benefits whiskey fans and distilleries alike

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📚 Were the Salem Witch Trials Caused by Rye Madness?

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🎙️ Ep. 128 - Developing Character Through Grain, Wood, and the Art of the Blend with Ari Sussman of WHISKEY JYPSI

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📚 Was Colonel E.H. Taylor Really the Hero of the Bottled-in-Bond Act?

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📚 Was Being "Grandpa's Drink" the Reason for the 1980s Whiskey Depression?

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📚 Did George Thorpe Make America's First Corn Whiskey?

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✈️ WF087 to Florida: TIMBER CREEK DISTILLERY

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✈️ WF086 to Ohio: WATERSHED DISTILLERY

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✈️ WF085 to New York: COOPERSTOWN DISTILLERY - New York vs Kentucky Bourbon, Baseball Decanters, and Yankees or Mets

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📚 Did Ladies of the Evening Make GlenDronach a Success?

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✈️ WF084 to Vermont: VERMONT SPIRITS

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✈️ WF083 to New Hampshire: FLAG HILL DISTILLERY - Breakfast Bourbon, No-Till Farming, and the New Stillhouse

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🎉 WF2025 - Whiskey Lore's Fan Favorite Independent Craft Distillery Top 40 Countdown (2025 Edition) Part 2

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📚 Is Old Forester the First Bottled Bourbon?

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🎉 WF2025 - TOP 40 Countdown: Whiskey Lore's Fan Favorite Independent Craft Distilleries (2025 Edition)

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✈️ WF081 to Massachusetts: BOSTON HARBOR DISTILLERY - Rhonda Kallman's Journey from Beer to Drams, a Historic Building, and Demon Seed

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✈️ WF080 to Rhode Island: WORKING MAN DISTILLERS - The Whiskey Proposal, Moving a Distillery, and Family Guy

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✈️ WF079 to Connecticut: LITCHFIELD DISTILLERY - From Water to Whiskey, Connecticut Grain, and the Spirit of Hard Work

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📚 Whatever Happened to the Old-Time Saloon?

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✈️ WF078 to New Jersey: MILK STREET DISTILLERY - A Story of Brothers, Irish Influence, and the War Penny

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🥃 Ep. 127 - TASTING REVIEW: Diageo's 2025 Special Releases with Greg King of Proof

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🎙️ Ep. 126 - FETTERCAIRN DISTILLERY: Tropical Fruit Notes, Long Aged Whisky, and History

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✈️ WF077 to Wyoming: BRUSH CREEK DISTILLERY - Railroad Whiskey, Steve Nally's Wyoming Influence, and a Sprawling Ranch

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✈️ WF076 to Montana: HEADFRAME SPIRITS - Building Stills, Butte's Mining History, and the Orphan Girl

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✈️ WF075 to Idaho: UP NORTH DISTILLERY - Single Malt, Honey Spirits, and a Bavarian Inspired Treat

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✈️ WF074 to Washington: BROWNE FAMILY SPIRITS - From Kentucky to Finding Flavor in the Pacific Northwest

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✈️ WF073 to Oregon: OREGON SPIRIT DISTILLERS - Wheat Whiskey, Cocktails, and Oregon Distilling Beyond Portland

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✈️ WF072 to California: HINTERHAUS DISTILLERY - Single Malt from Scratch and Working With Your Environment

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📚 Where Did America's Single Use Barrel Rule Come From?

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✈️ WF071 to Nevada: FREY RANCH DISTILLERY - Visiting a True Estate Distillery Inspecting Grain to Glass

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✈️ WF070 to Utah: SUGAR HOUSE DISTILLERY - America's Scenic Wonderland and the Spirits Inspired By It

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✈️ WF069 to New Mexico: AS ABOVE SO BELOW DISTILLERY - An Uncommon Philosophy of Spirit Driven Spirits

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✈️ WF068 to Colorado: BOULDER SPIRITS - A Touch of Scotland with a Bourbon twist in the Rockies

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🎙️ Ep. 125 - THE WHISKEY BIBLE: The Latest Whiskey Boom and History with Author Noah Rothbaum

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✈️ WF067 to North Carolina: Oaklore Distillery and Tasting Room - Embracing a state forgotten by whiskey history

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✈️ WF066 to Tennessee: Company Distilling - Making Lynchburg More Than Just a Jack Daniel's Destination with Jeff Arnett

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🎙️ Ep. 124 - TWO STACKS IRISH WHISKEY: The Return of the Irish Whiskey Bonder with Shane McCarthy

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✈️ WF065 to Scotland: Isle of Raasay Distillery - A blender builds a flavor rich distillery on a gem of an island

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✈️ WF064 to Missouri: Copper Mule Distillery - Wheated Bourbon in Wine Country with a historical twist

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🎙️ Ep. 123 - RM ROSE CO DISTILLERY: Exploring Atlanta Georgia's Forgotten Distilling Legacy with Andy Sudderth

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✈️ WF063 to Georgia: 1861 Distillery - Six grain Bourbon, the limestone myth, and a rescued Mississippi still

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🎙️ Ep. 122 - BARRELL CRAFT SPIRITS: The Art of the Bourbon Blend

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✈️ WF062 to Kentucky: Stone Fences Tours - A guide to the tour company experience

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🎙️ Ep. 121 - DR. PAT HEIST: Wilderness Trail Distillery and Firm Solutions Co-Founder

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‍✈️ WF061 to Kentucky: New Riff Distillery - New breed, rye forward, handsome bottle

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‍✈️ WF060 to Kentucky: Whiskey Thief - Bottle your own, farm atmosphere, NULU cocktails

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‍✈️ WF059 to Kentucky: Augusta Distillery - Small town Americana, historic converted factory, cigar rolling

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‍✈️ WF058 to Kentucky: RD1 Spirits Distillery - Explore the barrel, micro-distillery, entertainment hub

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‍✈️ WF057 to Pennsylvania: Iron City Distilling - The three chamber still, Rosen rye, old PPG factory

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‍✈️ WF056 to Nevada: Minden Mill Distillery - Estate distillery, Scottish pot stills, wow-factor column stills

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‍✈️ WF055 to Delaware: Painted Stave Distillery - Scrapple spirits, food trucks, artistic touch (G48:17)

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‍✈️ WF054 to Pennsylvania: Dad's Hat Distillery - Rye revival, Rosen rebirth, amazing young whiskey (G48:16)

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‍✈️ WF053 to Maryland: Meinelschmidt Distillery - Veteran owned, wheat whiskey focus, town rebirth (G48:15)

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‍✈️ WF052 to Virginia: Copper Fox Distillery - Malting floor, wood smoked malts, country distillery (G48:14)

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‍✈️ WF051 to West Virginia: Black Draft Distillery - Horse farm to party barn, agritourism, historic whiskey brand (G48:13)

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‍✈️ WF050 to North Carolina: Oak and Grist Distillery - American single malt, Speyside experience, shadow of Beer City USA (G48:12)

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‍✈️ WF049 to Georgia: ASW Distillery - Pot still whiskey, America meets old world, three distilleries (G48:11)

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✈️ WF048 to Florida: St. Augustine Distillery - Free tours, ice works, taming Florida heat (G48:10)