The 12 Days of Barrel Picks is back, and we’re kicking this festive season off with Pinhook. Our good friend Chris Blatner stops by to present The Whiskey Legion and Leo’s Mayfair 6-year bourbon single barrel selection.

Guest: Chris Blatner

Hosts: Jake Hukee & Callum O’Donnell

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Visit Leo’s Mayfair HERE

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“You try be something for everybody, or you try to be everything for somebody,” says Eric Rosentreter, Woodinville Whiskey’s Region Brand Ambassador, and this quote really shapes my conversation with Eric. We also discuss the history of Woodinville, their single barrel program and Eric’s path through the bar/whiskey industry, while focusing on ever-shifting momentum of the service industry and selling whiskey during the past two years. If you ever wanted a true look into the life of a whiskey ambassador, then take a listen.

Guest: Eric Rosentreter

Host: Jake Hukee

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Executive Director of Bourbon Charity, Chris Blatner shares how they’re building a community around whiskey and charity together with whiskey lovers to support amazing organizations like Children's Tumor Foundation and St. Jude, Boys & Girls Club of America.

Guest: Chris Blatner

Hosts: Jake Hukee & Callum O’Donnell

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Wilson Works For Castle & Key. Yes. our very own Wilson Torres is the new market manager for Castle & Key. Wilson shares his fortuitous four-year relationship with the distillery, and how his conversations with the founders over the years lead him down his whiskey path. Wilson also shares how Castle & Key is revitalizing the Old Taylor Distillery by preserving the past and integrating it with modern distilling.

Hosts: Jake Hukee & Wilson Torres

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Live from Birch Road Cellar, we do a whiskey tasting with a live studio audience. We feature Aberlour and Starward (of course), along with The Glenlivet and Kyle Smith of Westward Whiskey. Drink along as we educate, laugh and perform the art of being a brand ambassador.

Guests: Kim Bosse & Kyle Smith

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Visit Westward Whiskey Here

Hosts: Jake Hukee & Callum O’Donnell

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Mythology Distillery’s. National Sales Director Andy Izeluk joins us to share how travel and adventure prompted three friends to build a distillery that embraces community, friendship and the next unknown is this adventure called life. Andy also shares how his work on the distributor side of industry prepared him to jump-ship to the brand side of the whiskey industry.

Guest: Andy Izeluk & Brett Bauer

Hosts: Jake Hukee & Wilson Torres

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Brett Bauer is back to preview Sagamore Spirit’s two new releases: 8-Year-Old Rye and Rye Ale Finish.

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Guest: Brett Bauer

Hosts: Jake Hukee & Wilson Torres

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Jake, Callum and Wilson are joined by old friends Chris Blatner and Matt Brown, along with a new friend of the business (Gio) Sean Giordano. Gio is a Longtime bartender and former bar manager, and brings a balanced perspective of how whiskey brands can build in bars and restaurants. We throw questions and situations at Gio to see how he’d help build brand loyalty for up and coming distilleries.

Guests: Chris Blatner, Matthew Brown and Sean Giordano

Hosts: Jake Hukee, Wilson Torres & Callum O’Donnell

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Founders of Bespoke Beverage Bobby Gonzalez and Noah Tracht sit down with us to share their innovative story of creating cocktails to go through the hospitality industry. Bobby and Noah also share their insights on developing a business during the pandemic, that’s transformed into a disruptor in the alcohol industry.

Callum and Jake return from a night of account visits to share their stories and insights of being a whiskey brand ambassador in Chicago. The two also kill a bottle of Jim Beam 8-year-old Bourbon in a donkey decanter from 1988. (This is not a sober episode).

Hosts: Jake Hukee & Callum O’Donnell

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