We've reached part three of our Colorado run, and this week it's Breckenridge Bourbon, the bottle sitting on every liquor store shelf around here. We get into the founder's story, a radiologist pulling brutal hours who was standing knee-deep in snowmelt one day and walked away convinced he should bet his house, his savings, and a chunk of his kids' college fund on a whiskey hunch. We talk about what happens to a barrel aged nearly two miles up in the Rockies, why the angels take such a big cut at that altitude, and how that shapes what lands in your glass. There's a heavyweight announcement out of Tennessee that dropped the morning we recorded, a t-shirt that almost got thrown out of a church, and a question we kept circling back to: what does this whiskey taste like before anyone blends it?

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