Great American Whiskey Cookers

Welcome to Episode #62 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Swisher Iowa and Cedar Ridge Distillery. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. When your distillery is also a vineyard kicking out some pretty good tasting wine, you get the added benefit of finishing your bourbon in your own wine barrels. That's...

Super Premium Blind Whiskey Tasting: On this Friday Blind Tasting episode we take an E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof Batch 14 and put it up against an Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch A124. While the E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof is a highly allocated bourbon, hard to find and usually when you find it, it’s at stupid prices, the Elijah Craig Barrel Proof seems to be in just about every liquor store as a store...

Welcome to Episode #61 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Columbia Illinois and Old Monroe Distillery. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. If you had a distillery, would you store your barrels horizontal (like most of Kentucky does) or would you palletize your barrels? It's a decision every distillery...

Super Premium Blind Whiskey Tasting: On this Friday Blind Tasting Challenge we are going to take one of the stalwarts of the bourbon sphere, Blanton's Straight From the Barrel and let it go head to head with Knob Creek Single Barrel. We blind some friends of the show to get their honest opinions on which one they like the most and why. All doing it as a blind tasting. They have no idea what t...

Welcome to Episode #60 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Earling, Iowa and Lonely Oak Distillery. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. In this episode, Pat Hoffmann of Lonely Oak distillery tells us about his journey into learning to like Rye and subsequently making his sweet mash rye. It has turned many f...

Super Premium Blind Whiskey Tasting: On this episode, we are expanding our tasting series / reviews to be blind tasting challenges. We are pitting a super premium, highly allocated usually very expensive whiskey against a whiskey that is easier to find and easier on the pocket book. We bring in some friends of the show and make them blind taste the two whiskies then pick the one they want to conti...

Welcome to Episode #58 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Earling, Iowa and Lonely Oak Distillery. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. On the far western side of Iowa, in the middle of corn and soybean fields, sits a small family run distillery by the name of Lonely Oak. The Master distiller, Pat Hoffmann...

Welcome to Episode #59 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Earling, Iowa and Lonely Oak Distillery. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. Pat Hoffman at Lonely Oak distillery walks us through a tasting of his flagship bourbon. This is a regular standard release and can be found wherever Lonely Oak is distribu...

This is the Big Human’s Whiskey Journey where he gets to taste a whiskey blind, with no preconceived ideas and we get his initial reaction. On this episode, I pour the Big Human a whiskey from a craft distillery located in Michigan. The distillery is Copper Craft, and this is a Straight Bourbon Small Batch. What does does the Big Human think of it. Is it a keeper? Would he buy it? Check out the ep...

Welcome to Episode #57 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to  Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Casey Jones Distillery. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. We were blessed with tasting all sorts of expressions at Casey Jones Distillery. The Prohibition Era Moonshine was a sleeper that we didn’t expect.  But…after ta...

This is the Big Human’s Whiskey Journey where he gets to taste a whiskey blind, with no preconceived ideas and we get his initial reaction. It’s a big bourbon episode, and even more than that, it’s another Rye that I am exposing the Big Human to. Now remember, he’s not a Rye Guy, at least that’s what he keeps saying. So is Elijah Craigh Straight Rye just “One More” rye he needs to get? And, will h...

Welcome to Episode #53 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Louisville Kentucky and Pursuit Spirits. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. The Art of Blending: In this 4 part mini-series, we sit down with Ryan Cecil and Kenny Coleman of Pursuit Spirits and get an in depth look into how Ryan is blending the awa...

Welcome to Episode #54 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Louisville Kentucky and Pursuit Spirits. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. The Art of Blending: In this 4 part mini-series, we sit down with Ryan Cecil and Kenny Coleman of Pursuit Spirits and get an in depth look into how Ryan is blending the awa...

Welcome to Episode #55 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Louisville Kentucky and Pursuit Spirits. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. The Art of Blending: In this 4 part mini-series, we sit down with Ryan Cecil and Kenny Coleman of Pursuit Spirits and get an in depth look into how Ryan is blending the awa...

Welcome to Episode #56 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Louisville Kentucky and Pursuit Spirits. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. The Art of Blending: In this 4 part mini-series, we sit down with Ryan Cecil and Kenny Coleman of Pursuit Spirits and get an in depth look into how Ryan is blending the awa...

This is the Big Human’s Whiskey Journey where he gets to taste a whiskey blind, with no preconceived ideas and we get his initial reaction. The Mississippi plays an integral part in the history of whiskey. And on this episode, We pour the Big Human a whiskey from the Mississippi River Distillery located in LeClaire Iowa. Yep, you heard that right. Iowa. it is the corn state after all. The bourbon...

Welcome to Episode #52 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to  Lincoln, Nebraska and Sideshow Spirits Distillery. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. Distilling whiskey has it’s roots in distilling beer. Something that Sideshow Spirits has a lot of experience in. So, it was a natural progression to get into wh...

This is the Big Human’s Whiskey Journey where he gets to taste a whiskey blind, with no preconceived ideas and we get his initial reaction. Few Bourbon is made in Illinois. It may be owned by a bigger company, but it’s start was as a craft distillery. And, this bottle is from prior to Few being acquired. So I pour the Big Human a sample of this whiskey to see what his thoughts are. Check it out.

Welcome to Episode #51 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Franklin, Kentucky and Dueling Grounds Distillery. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. On this episode of the Great American Whiskey Cookers, we belly up to the bar for a unique signature cocktail from Zac Smith at Dueling Grounds Distillery in Fran...

This is the Big Human’s Whiskey Journey where he gets to taste a whiskey blind, with no preconceived ideas and we get his initial reaction. Carl T. Hubers Starlight has been making some big waves over the last couple of years. It’s from the heartland, Indiana (and no, not that other Indiana distillery) but, everyone seems to go nuts over it. I put a Starlight Double Oaked Bourbon in front of the B...

Welcome to Episode #50 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! It’s the week of New Years and as we head into 2025, we wanted to give you an idea of what’s coming up in Season 3 for the Great American Whiskey Cookers and what distilleries we have on the production schedule. Check out this episode and get a sneak peak of what we have coming in season 3.

This is the Big Human’s Whiskey Journey where he gets to taste a whiskey blind, with no preconceived ideas and we get his initial reaction. Highly allocated and special bottles are fun, but sometimes, a bottom shelfer is just what’s needed. The Big Human hates it when I do this to him. So watch the episode and see what he thinks of Very Old Barton 100 proof. A Sub $30 dollar whiskey and a bottom s...

Welcome to Episode #49 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! It's Christmas week and we thought we would give you a run down of the distilleries we have been at in 2024. We share some memorable moments from the distilleries, and Jeff makes the guys pick their favorite (at least their favorite if they could only pour "it" for a week). And of course, the Big Human has to push the env...

This is the Big Human’s Whiskey Journey where he gets to taste a whiskey blind, with no preconceived ideas and we get his initial reaction. It’s Christmas time so another special episode and we let the Big Human bring one of his coveted bottles to blind us with. He’s getting more and more used to opening up some of his bottles. Question is…do we like it as much as he does. Watch the episode and fi...

Welcome to Episode #48 of the Great American Whiskey Cookers! In this podcast, we take you on an immersive adventure to Louisville Kentucky and Pursuit Spirits. Join us as we delve into what makes this such a unique distillery. The boys at Pursuit Spirits (Kenny and Ryan) are blending some great whiskies. And people can’t get enough of their Double Oaked Bourbon. Kenny and Ryan guide us through a...