Whiskey Lore® Stories

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Past Whiskey Lore Stories

Distillery Date Listen
Hall of Legends: Franklin C. Hoyt
Oct 5, 2026
Hall of Legends: Hiram Walker
Sep 21, 2026
Hall of Legends: Aeneas Coffey
Sep 14, 2026
BOURBON 3b: Did Bourbon Get Its Name from Barrels Marked “Old Bourbon”?
Sep 7, 2026
BOURBON 3a: Did a Congressman Reveal the Inventor of Bourbon Whiskey?
Aug 31, 2026
BOURBON 2: The Birth of Bourbon
Aug 24, 2026
BOURBON 1b: Before Bourbon, Kentucke Country's War for Survival
Aug 11, 2026
BOURBON 1a: Did Kentucky's First Settlers Really Make Whiskey?
Jul 27, 2026
The Lost History of Bourbon: Why Its Real Origin Story Matters
Jul 13, 2026
Four Roses: Did Seagram's Really Ruin a Great Whiskey Brand?
Jun 15, 2026
Four Roses: How Did a Whiskey Brand Survive Prohibition and Thrive?
Jun 15, 2026
Four Roses: Did a Corsage of Red Roses Inspire the Name?
Jun 1, 2026
Is There Really a Right Way to Spell Whiskey?
May 11, 2026
The Whiskey Law That Nearly Started a Civil War
Apr 27, 2026
Was Jack Daniel's Really America's First Registered Distillery?
Apr 13, 2026
What Did We Get Wrong About Jack Daniel and Uncle Nearest?
Mar 30, 2026
Were the Salem Witch Trials Caused by Rye Madness?
Mar 16, 2026
Was Colonel E.H. Taylor Really the Hero of the Bottled-in-Bond Act?
Mar 3, 2026
Was Being "Grandpa's Drink" the Reason for the 1980s Whiskey Depression?
Feb 24, 2026
Did George Thorpe Make America's First Corn Whiskey?
Feb 16, 2026
Did Ladies of the Evening Make GlenDronach a Success?
Jan 25, 2026
Whatever Happened to the Old-Time Saloon?
Nov 25, 2025
Is Old Forester the First Bottled Bourbon?
Oct 9, 2025
Where Did America's Single Use Barrel Rule Come From?
Feb 5, 2025
The Poitín Republic: When Irish Distillers Defied the Crown
Apr 16, 2024
The Bloody Beginnings of Ireland's Poitín Wars
Feb 6, 2023
The Irish Revolutionary Who Escaped the British, but Not His Fate
Jan 24, 2023
The Undertaker Who Kickstarted the Irish Whiskey Industry
Jan 15, 2023
When a Gallon Wasn't a Gallon
Jan 9, 2023
Is Ireland's Oldest Distillery Really the Oldest?
Oct 24, 2022
When Ireland's Whiskey Laws Became a Matter of Life and Death
Oct 24, 2022
Was America's Naval Hero a Pirate in Irish Waters?
Oct 24, 2022
Who Were the Scots-Irish, and Did They Invent Bourbon?
Sep 18, 2022
Why Does Killowen Call Itself Ireland's Protest Distillery?
Sep 12, 2022
Did Dublin's Big Four Distillers Invent the E in Whiskey?
Sep 4, 2022
Did a Malt Tax Really Create Irish Pot Still Whiskey?
Aug 29, 2022
Did a Dutch King Cause Ireland's Nectar to Fall Out of Favor?
Aug 20, 2022
Did a Bottle of Whiskey Help England Conquer Ireland?
Aug 15, 2022
Who Really Invented Irish Coffee?
Aug 7, 2022
When Three Million Irish People Swore Off Whiskey
Jul 27, 2022
Irish Whiskey: Two Journeys, 135 Years Apart
Jul 20, 2022
S5:8 - The Rattlesnake King and Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey
Dec 8, 2021
S5:7 - The Legend of Blue Ruin
Nov 22, 2021
S5:6 - Campbeltown: The Whisky Capital of the World? (Part 2)
Nov 8, 2021
S5:5 - Campbeltown: The Birth of a Whisky Capital (Part 1)
Oct 27, 2021
S5:4 - The Whisky Trust: Who Killed The Trust? (Part 3)
Oct 17, 2021
S5:3 - The Whisky Trust: Greenhut, Sherman, and the Chicago Holdout (Part 2)
Oct 10, 2021