A few years ago, I was at retired Old Fitzgerald master distiller Ed Foote’s house and noticed a George Dickel poster. For the unknowing whiskey person, Foote was the perfect George Dickel poster child. I suppose it didn’t really matter that he didn’t make the […]

In American whiskey, distillers have this odd desire to say they were the first with something. “We were the first distiller on this hill, who started on a Tuesday.” (Nobody made this claim.) “We were the first distiller here since Prohibition.” (Even if true, nobody […]