Spirits & Distilling Podcast
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Displaying 3 items of Spirits & Distilling Podcast with the tag "blending whiskey".
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39: Jarrad Huckshold of The Cask Takes a Winemaker’s Approach to Whiskey Maturation and Blending
August 19th, 2025 | 1 hr 29 secs
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Understanding the dynamic way casks interact with the liquid inside and the environment around them is key to producing the components of a great whiskey blend.
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27: Ashley Barnes of The Blending House Uses Data to Drive Better Blends
March 4th, 2025 | 52 mins 2 secs
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As a chemist with a background in pharmaceutical quality, Ashley Barnes developed scientific discipline and a data-driven approach. Now as master blender at the Blending House, she applies that same rigor to the subject of aging and blending spirits.
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3: Lisa Wicker, Itinerant Distiller, Considers Lessons From Her Past While Looking to the Future
April 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
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The former president and master distiller for Brooklyn’s Widow Jane took a circuitous route before ending up in distilling, but the lessons in blending, flavor development, and agricultural integration she picked up along the way have informed her approach to distilled spirits to this day.