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GBM 14 – Whiskey, Terroir and Fabulous Flavors Behind the Booze with Rogue Distillery

Submarine? Spaceship? Still?

As you may remember from episode 1 of Good Beer Matters, beer and whiskey are brothers separated after mashing.  Start with beer, skip the hops addition, then add distillation and barrel aging and, voila!…. Whiskey.  In this episode, we return to Rogue, but this time we go to the distillery across the lot from the brewery on the bay in

Ocean Aging Room

Newport Oregon.  We will spend some time with a Level 10 Spirits Wizard… you heard me correctly… to learn about terroir and the fabulous flavors behind the booze. 

Here at Good Beer Matters, we are equal opportunity drinkers.  There are occasions when we set down our beer to take up wine, saké and

Level 10 Spirits Wizard at Work

especially whiskey.  All we ask is that it is nuanced, well crafted and very, very good.  Thanks to Rogue and Jake Holshue, for fulfilling our drink requirements and for being the only Spirits Wizard of any level I have ever had the pleasure to meet.

 

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Show Links

GBM episode 1

Rogue Distillery

Rogue Ocean Aging Room

American Craft Spirits Association (ACSA)