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In this episode we talk about our upcoming Coastal Scotch & Lost Lantern Seminar along with our April 24th Independent Spirits Film Screening in Saratoga! Charles is headed for Japan but we still got a podcast in, yes! NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP Hard Truth Rye Single Barrel Cask Strength Bardstown Bourbon Co. Collaborative Series Silver Oak Kings County Barrel Strength Peated Bourbon Rare Character Bourbon Batch 14 Heaven Hill Bourbon & Rye Grain to Glass Chinquapin Oak Old Carter Batch 15 Rye Lucky Seven The Hold Up 9YR Bourbon Hurst & Knoll Rare Character Rye H.K. Young Wheated Bourbon Toasted Finish Glaschu GlenAllachie 10YR Pedro Ximenez Glaschu Ledaig 10YR Pedro Ximenez Uncharted "Park Life" Highland Park 20YR Nc'nean Quiet Rebels "Simon" Stout Finished Single Malt Ardnamurchan Peated Sauternes Kilchoman 100% Islay Batch 13 Daftmill 2010 12YR Cask Strength USA Single Malt Filey Bay English Single Malt Whisky Festival Lists https://whiskycast.com/calendar-of-events/ https://drammer.com/whisky-festivals-calendar https://insidethecask.com/whisky-events-festivals/ Check out firstfillspirits.com for all bottles, travel & news. Thanks for listening!

In this episode we taste some limited edition J.J. Corry Irish Whiskey releases that may be something special at the shop soon. What perfect timing as well, since we just had Louise McGuane, the founder and blender, in the shop this past week. Then we discuss the Four Roses sale and all of our latest seminars. NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP -- WHY ARE THESE HERE? Glaschu Glenallachie 10YR Uncharted Park Life (Highland Park) 20YR Nulu Hazmat Bourbons - over 70% ABV! New Louisville Bourbon/Rye Hazmats Super Freak 11+YR Bourbon Shady Knoll Rye & Four Grain Whiskey Croithli Irish Whiskeys Holmes Cay - Venezuelan Rum Rolling Fork Barbados & Jamaican Rums FOUR ROSES SALE Article from Distillery Trail *cool graphic about beer, wine and spirits sales in this. Check out firstfillspirits.com for all bottles, travel & news. Thanks for listening!

We're back! Our last episode was in November 2024, but we have to do what our customers want, and two of you mentioned that you missed our podcast. We missed it too, so we'll be releasing one episode a month. In this episode, we discuss the innovation and creativity of Lost Lantern, the independent bottler of American Whiskey. Creativity and quality whiskey are essential in the chaos of this whiskey world. Then, we taste our latest store pick single barrel of Bourbon, James E. Pepper. It literally arrived an hour before we recorded! Feels good to be back. BOTTLES THAT SHOULD NOT STILL BE HERE: Kilchoman Muscat & Madeira CasksArdnamurchan Sherry Unpeated Single CaskNc’Nean Calvados & Ex-Bourbon Single CasksCraigellachie Murray McDavid Red Wine Cask 14YRLiving Souls Lagmore (Ballindalloch)Rare Character Batch 05 RyeLost Lantern Frey Ranch Rye/Far NorthMars YA #03Kanosuke 2023Amrut Aatma Spectrum CaskAll travel trips can be found ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out all of our products at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.firstfillspirits.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please leave us a review if you can. We appreciate you listening!

After many amazing travels to Scotland over the past few weeks, we're finally back in one place! We discuss Cotswolds Distillery, which Holly visited while in London in September, along with a review of some awesome samples from our friend David, tons of new releases to the shop, and some good news for the whisky world. It's not all doom and gloom! NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP: Nashville Barrel Co 7YR (Heaven Hill) Nashville Barrel Co 8YR (Willett) Nashville Barrel Co. 9YR (Jim Beam) H.K. Young – toasted blend & single barrel 6YR Nc’nean Orchard Cobbler Huntress Kilchoman Sauternes Lost Lantern J. Rieger Hazmat Rye + J.Rieger bourbon Lost Lantern Boulder Armagnac Finish Augusta 10YR Buckner’s Single Barrel High N' Wicked 15YR the Jury Bourbon Takamine Sakura Cask Japanese Whisky Hillrock 5YR Double Cask Bourbon Stellum Bourbon & Rye – if you like Stellum get it now because it’s going away Lady of the Glen Tasting Kits Lindores Abby Releases OKI BIB Bourbon – OKI is back Croithli Irish whiskeys out of Donegal A bunch of Cadenheads, A.D Rattrays, etc. Duncan Taylors, Dram Mors, Creetowns…..  Claxtons, more Duncan Taylor, Holyrood…. All on the way!  NEWS: ⁠Hong Kong Spirits Tax Break Set To Reignite Whisky Market⁠ All travel trips can be found ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out all of our products at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.firstfillspirits.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please leave us a review if you can, we appreciate you listening!

We're back! Today we discuss how our whisky summer has been going along with new bottles to the shop, our latest seminars/classes and upcoming whisky travel. Then, Holly blind tastes Charles on something that may be a potential new item for the shop, does it make the cut? Followed by a discussion of Holladay Distillery in Missouri and Milroy's Whisky Travel Index and their top distillery experiences. NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP: Blue Note Single Barrel Store Pick Bourbon! Dram Mor Ruadh Maor (Peated Glenturret) Dram Mor Dailuaine Bourbon Matured Dram Mor Linkwood Bourbon Matured Creetown Tullibardine 18YR Samaroli Blended Malts & Blended Scotch Southern Star Wheated Paragon Bourbon Single Barrel Ben Holladay Soft Red Wheat Augusta 10YR & 8YR Kentucky Bourbon Kings County BIB Bourbon New World – Pokeno, Levant Heights, Lakes, Catador Itinerante, High Coast Berg, Kamet, St. Kilian etc. --- An article from The Spirits Business where Holly discusses New World Whisky. "⁠World Whisky finds its feet⁠." Nc'nean Aon Single Cask ON THE WAY: Town Branch & Kings County Collab ⁠Milroy's Whisky Travel Index⁠ - Top Scotch Whisky Distillery Experiences All travel trips can be found ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.Check out all of our products at ⁠⁠⁠www.firstfillspirits.com⁠⁠⁠Please leave us a review if you can, we appreciate you listening!Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

Today we discuss all of the amazing trips we've just returned from -- all Scotland! There are many new releases to the shop and a lot of upcoming tastings & classes. Then we discuss Clydeside Distillery in Glasgow and the Bloomberg article that thinks "Brandy might be the next Bourbon". Thoughts?? NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP Glenfarlcas 105 Alamabique Mexican Rum - Bourbon & French Oak Matured Resilient 17YR Tennessee Bourbon Madeira Cask Dad’s Hat Rye Single Barrel PM Collab (67% ABV) New Riff Single Barrel Ryes - NYS & Skurnik Lagavulin Nick Offerman Rum Cask Finish Clydeside Cask Strength Limited Edition Bardstown/Amurt Bourbon Collab INCOMING SOON: Lost Lantern 'Saratoga Summer' Kings County Custom Blend, Lost Lantern Mississippi Memory, Blue Note Bourbon Store Pick Single Barrel, New Dram Mor, Creetown & Lady of the Glen…. All travel trips can be found ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Check out all of our products at ⁠⁠www.firstfillspirits.com⁠⁠ Please leave us a review if you can, we appreciate you listening! Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

In this episode, we discuss South Carolina's High Wire Distilling Co. and their Jimmy Red Corn Bourbon along with one of Fred Minnick's latest articles. According to new data, all generations, across the board, are planning to drink less for a variety of reasons but many based on health reasons. We want to know your thoughts as we share ours! NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP Dràm Mòr Independent Bottler Tullibardine 8YR PX Cask Finish Inchfad 16YR Benrinnes 12YR Rancio Sec (French Sherry) Finish Dailuaine 13YR Port Cask Finish Cree/Creetown Independent Bottler Arran 18YR Caol Ila 12YR Shiraz Finish Balblair 10YR Teaninich 15YR Sherry Finish North British 31YR Cayeya Cask Strength Single Barrel Tequila Tumblin' Dice 8YR Rye Midwestern Lost Lantern Collection Tom’s Foolery 9YR Rye FEW Spirits Bourbon Starlight Bourbon Middle West Rye Wollersheim Bourbon Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey Far Flung Blended Rye Torabhaig Allt Glean Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch All travel trips can be found ⁠here⁠. Check out all of our products at ⁠www.firstfillspirits.com⁠ Please leave us a review if you can, we appreciate you listening! Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

We discuss all of the amazing new bottles to shop and it's a lot. We then do a grab-bag of sorts for new samples that we really need to taste and discuss all of the whisky trips we have planned for 2024 and 2025. In the mix, we talk about GlenAllachie and their new mainland-peated releases called "Meikle Toir". Come travel and drink whisky with us! NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP: GlenAllachie Madiera 13YR Meikle Toirs - Original, Sherry, Chinquapin & Turbo Nc’Nean Organic Single Malt Scotch Glen Scotias - 12YR Amontillado, 15YR, 11YR Campbeltown Malts Festival Port Finish, Victoriana Craigellachie, Old Pulteney & Auchentoshan Signatories Redacted Bros – SRV5 - Caol Ila & Clynelish | TB/BSW - teaspooned Macallan Raising Glasses Ascendence Linkwood Single Malt Scotch & Westland Single Casks Port Askaig Islay Single Malt Scotch SweetDram Blended Scotch Spearhead Single Grain Scotch Fat Baby Bourbon Bardstown BIB Wheated Bourbon EJ Curley Small Batch & Single Barrel Bourbon Blue Note Uncut Single Barrel Bourbon Kanosuke Japanese Single Malt Penderyn Headliner Single Malt – Jamaican Rum & Ruby Port Finish All travel trips can be found here. Check out all of our products at www.firstfillspirits.com Please leave us a review if you can, we appreciate you listening! Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

This episode is all about Coastal Scotland. We feature Isle of Raasay Distillery and discuss our September West Coast Scotland Whisky Trip. If these distilleries and this discussion don't make you want to book at least 5 trips to Scotland, we don't know what will... Holly blind tastes Charles and we're both a bit out of practice when it comes to blind tastings! Douglas Laing Old Particular Jura 13YR & Authroisk 12YR Elements of Islay - Cask Edit, Cask Strength Bourbon, Cask Strength Sherry MacLean’s Nose Blended Scotch Whisky Dead Reckoning Rum - Foursquare, Foursquare PX Finish, Australian High N Wicked High Rye Kentucky Bourbon  Desert Dessert from Lost Lantern, Del Bac is back in! Suerte 7YR Extra Anejo Tequila Single Barrel ** West Coast Scotland Experience -- Scotland - West Coast Whisky Tour 2024 - Rascal + Thorn (rascalandthorn.com) Please leave us a review wherever you are listening as well. We appreciate you! Cheers! Check out all releases online at www.firstfillspirits.com! Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

A lot of big moves and acquisitions in our Scotch & Canadian Whisky world! We discuss Found North, Single Cask Nation, and what we see happening in 2024. We also discuss a Dramface article that was pretty harsh on all of this production increase continuing to happen in the Scotch industry (and beyond). Then, we get back to blind tastings, and Charles blind tastes Holly. Lost Lantern Releases – Mountain Meadow, Flame & Shadow (Brooklyn Bakery gone) Cream of Kentucky 16YR Four Roses NY single barrels  Boone County Bourbon & Green River Bourbon Store Pick NEW Stauning Danish Rye Whisky Store Pick Just a heads up, these store picks are single-digit low: Stauning Tequila Finish, Black Button Bourbon & Obtainium Light Whiskey. ** Water of Life Film Speyside/Highland Trip Spring 2024 -- ⁠⁠The Water of Life - Speyside & Highlands: May 4-12, 2024 | First Fill Spirits: Curate | Learn | Explore⁠⁠ Please leave us a review wherever you are listening as well. We appreciate you! Cheers! Check out all releases online at www.firstfillspirits.com! Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

We discuss the experimental and delicious whisky from Spirits of French Lick in Indiana. We took in a few cases as a NYS exclusive of Hindostan Falls Bourbon and everyone is LOVING it, including us. Every December all the influencers, magazines, and all their cousins and friends come out with their top picks of the year. We aren't going to tell you our favorite whiskies of 2023, that's just too dang difficult but we will take a look at our shelves and pick out the bottles that we would love for someone to gift to us. Our holiday picks! ** Water of Life Film Speyside/Highland Trip Spring 2024 -- ⁠The Water of Life - Speyside & Highlands: May 4-12, 2024 | First Fill Spirits: Curate | Learn | Explore⁠ Please leave us a review wherever you are listening as well. We appreciate you! Cheers! New Bottles to the shop: DS Tayman is back in! GlenAllachie 12YR Oloroso Single Cask EJ Curley Bourbon – Ashley Barnes blending Elements of Islay New Rice Whiskies - Fukano Glenturret’s are back in! Old Ezra Rye & Bourbon King’s Honey Barrel Finished Bourbon King’s County Cask Strength Bourbon Suerte 7YR Anejo Tequila Fannys Bay Tasmanian Single Malt Glendalough 7YR Mizunara Cask Boone County 6YR Single Barrel Bourbon STORE PICK 64% ABV IN-STORE ONLY CALL US Found North Peregrine 20YR Rare Character Exceptional Series Single Barrel Bourbon Rare Character Exceptional Series Single Barrel Malt Check out all releases online at www.firstfillspirits.com! Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

Our Japan Whisky Tour is coming up in March 2024 so we have Kanosuke on the mind! Also, in the news a ton over the past few weeks is Indian Whisky. We are so excited to see all of this press as Indri, Kamet, and other brands continue to push the category into global awareness. We discuss our next Stauning store pick single barrel and don't forget to look at our upcoming whisky trips! ** Water of Life Film Speyside/Highland Trip Spring 2024 -- The Water of Life - Speyside & Highlands: May 4-12, 2024 | First Fill Spirits: Curate | Learn | Explore Please leave us a review wherever you are listening as well. We appreciate you! Cheers! New Bottles to the shop: Murray McDavid's: Glentauchers, Braeval, Glen Keith & more! Single Malts of India Kurinji Dixon Dedman’s New 2X0 Doubled Oaked Release Jimmy Red South Carolina High Wire Bourbon Raising Glasses Australian Whisky Yowie & Venezuelan Rum Hindostan Falls Bourbon Boone County Amburana James Eadie Jura, Glen Spey, and Caol Ila check out all releases online at www.firstfillspirits.com Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

We're back! We missed you all too. During this episode we discuss both of our trips to Scotland and how whisky faired over the summer. Then we chat about Barrell Bourbon and how they truly are pioneers for American Whiskey Blenders. If you're up for it, after Barrell, we overshare our concerns or shall we say, cautious observations, regarding all of the new Scotch Distilleries in the works. Please leave us a review wherever you are listening as well. We appreciate you! Cheers! New Bottles to the shop: McLean’s Nose Blended Scotch Port Charlotte Islay Barley 2014 High Coast Swedish Whisky, Berg Sherry Matured Lakes Distillery Single Malt Maker's No. 5 M&H Sherry Cask Single Malt Penelope 9YR 4-Grain Bourbon Some Adelphi Collection but now gone! -- Glen Elgin, Dailuaine and Caol Ila Barrell Amburana Finsihed Bourbon Lost Lantern Still Austin Texas Bourbon Cadenhead’s Panama Rum Single Cask Barrel House 6 Sherry Finished Bourbon GlenAllachie Wood FInish Series – Hungarian & Spanish Oaks Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

It's time for a more "classic" episode with a distillery discussion around Ardnamurchan on the west coast of Scotland. Do us a favor and look it up on Google Maps. You'll see how cool and rural it is! Then Holly blind tastes Charles on a delicious, old, and rare whisky and we talk about Charle's coastal Scotland trip. Don't forget our 2-Year Anniversary Party on September 8th. It's gonna be awesome! To see our upcoming trips, look here. Please leave us a review wherever you are listening as well. We appreciate you! Cheers! New Bottles to the shop: Silkie Red Wine Finish & Stout Finish Murray McDavid’s new range – “Cask Finishes” Ten Mile Little Rest Single Malt Lost Lantern Bourbons Homebase Bourbon – Corbin Cash & Spirits Works Distillery Lindores STR/Ex-Bourbon/Sherry Cask Release Breckenridge Buddy pass, stout cask Port Charlotte Islay Barley 2014 King’s County BIB 7YR Bourbon + Blended Bourbon Linkwood Emergence Raising Glasses Single Malt Lucky Cat Peated, Sakura IWAI, Wine Cask IWAI, new Ichiro World Blend Blackadder round 1: Miltonduff, Red Snake. IF YOU LIKE SHERRY: Glentauchers, Balblair, Caol Ila, Aberlour, North British.. Woohoo! Check them all out online. Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

We were able to sneak in a podcast before Charles leaves for Scotland & Holly for NOLA! Holly is on a panel this year at Tales of the Cocktail and in honor of this New World Whisky Panel, we discuss M&H Israeli Whisky Distillery. They recently won World Whiskies Awards 2023 World's Best Single Malt with their sherry-matured single malt whisky. They beat out Scotch, Irish, and single malts from all over the world! Also, I think it's fair to say, Holly gets a grade of C for her blind tasting attempt which is not a fail so she'll take it. To see our upcoming trips, look here. Please leave us a review wherever you are listening as well. We appreciate you! Cheers! New Bottles to the shop: Method & Madness Irish Rye Whiskey – Rye & Malt Dingle’s New Core Range Single Malt DS Taymans – Linkwood, Caol Ila, Blair Athol, Glen Elgin Starward Nova – we just love their wine casks Abasolo Mexican Rice Whiskey Lochlea Our Barley Lowland Single Malt Scotch Del Bac Arizona Single Malt Normandie (Calvados) & Frontera (Sherry) Kilchoman STR Red Wine & PX Cask Evolution Single Casks Amrut Virgin French Oak 8YR Single Cask and more! Check out our website www.firstfillspirits.com Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal