We're back! Today we discuss how our whisky summer has been going along with new bottles to the shop, our latest seminars/classes and upcoming whisky travel. Then, Holly blind tastes Charles on something that may be a potential new item for the shop, does it make the cut? Followed by a discussion of Holladay Distillery in Missouri and Milroy's Whisky Travel Index and their top distillery experiences.

NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP:

Blue Note Single Barrel Store Pick Bourbon!

Dram Mor Ruadh Maor (Peated Glenturret)

Dram Mor Dailuaine Bourbon Matured

Dram Mor Linkwood Bourbon Matured

Creetown Tullibardine 18YR

Samaroli Blended Malts & Blended Scotch

Southern Star Wheated Paragon Bourbon Single Barrel

Ben Holladay Soft Red Wheat

Augusta 10YR & 8YR Kentucky Bourbon

Kings County BIB Bourbon

New World – Pokeno, Levant Heights, Lakes, Catador Itinerante, High Coast Berg, Kamet, St. Kilian etc. --- An article from The Spirits Business where Holly discusses New World Whisky. "⁠World Whisky finds its feet⁠."

Nc'nean Aon Single Cask

ON THE WAY: Town Branch & Kings County Collab

⁠Milroy's Whisky Travel Index⁠ - Top Scotch Whisky Distillery Experiences

All travel trips can be found ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.
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Today we discuss all of the amazing trips we've just returned from -- all Scotland! There are many new releases to the shop and a lot of upcoming tastings & classes. Then we discuss Clydeside Distillery in Glasgow and the Bloomberg article that thinks "Brandy might be the next Bourbon". Thoughts??

NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP

Glenfarlcas 105

Alamabique Mexican Rum - Bourbon & French Oak Matured

Resilient 17YR Tennessee Bourbon Madeira Cask

Dad’s Hat Rye Single Barrel PM Collab (67% ABV)

New Riff Single Barrel Ryes - NYS & Skurnik

Lagavulin Nick Offerman Rum Cask Finish

Clydeside Cask Strength Limited Edition

Bardstown/Amurt Bourbon Collab

INCOMING SOON: Lost Lantern 'Saratoga Summer' Kings County Custom Blend, Lost Lantern Mississippi Memory, Blue Note Bourbon Store Pick Single Barrel, New Dram Mor, Creetown & Lady of the Glen….

• All travel trips can be found ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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In this episode, we discuss South Carolina's High Wire Distilling Co. and their Jimmy Red Corn Bourbon along with one of Fred Minnick's latest articles. According to new data, all generations, across the board, are planning to drink less for a variety of reasons but many based on health reasons. We want to know your thoughts as we share ours!

NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP

Dràm Mòr Independent Bottler

Tullibardine 8YR PX Cask Finish

Inchfad 16YR

Benrinnes 12YR Rancio Sec (French Sherry) Finish

Dailuaine 13YR Port Cask Finish

Cree/Creetown Independent Bottler

Arran 18YR

Caol Ila 12YR Shiraz Finish

Balblair 10YR

Teaninich 15YR Sherry Finish

North British 31YR

Cayeya Cask Strength Single Barrel Tequila

Tumblin' Dice 8YR Rye

Midwestern Lost Lantern Collection

Tom’s Foolery 9YR Rye

FEW Spirits Bourbon

Starlight Bourbon

Middle West Rye

Wollersheim Bourbon

Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey

Far Flung Blended Rye

Torabhaig Allt Glean Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch

• All travel trips can be found ⁠here⁠.

  Check out all of our products at ⁠www.firstfillspirits.com⁠

  Please leave us a review if you can, we appreciate you listening!

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We discuss all of the amazing new bottles to shop and it's a lot. We then do a grab-bag of sorts for new samples that we really need to taste and discuss all of the whisky trips we have planned for 2024 and 2025. In the mix, we talk about GlenAllachie and their new mainland-peated releases called "Meikle Toir". Come travel and drink whisky with us!

NEW BOTTLES TO THE SHOP:

GlenAllachie Madiera 13YR

Meikle Toirs - Original, Sherry, Chinquapin & Turbo

Nc’Nean Organic Single Malt Scotch

Glen Scotias - 12YR Amontillado, 15YR, 11YR Campbeltown Malts Festival Port Finish, Victoriana

Craigellachie, Old Pulteney & Auchentoshan Signatories

Redacted Bros – SRV5 - Caol Ila & Clynelish | TB/BSW - teaspooned Macallan

Raising Glasses Ascendence Linkwood Single Malt Scotch & Westland Single Casks

Port Askaig Islay Single Malt Scotch

SweetDram Blended Scotch

Spearhead Single Grain Scotch

Fat Baby Bourbon

Bardstown BIB Wheated Bourbon

EJ Curley Small Batch & Single Barrel Bourbon

Blue Note Uncut Single Barrel Bourbon

Kanosuke Japanese Single Malt

Penderyn Headliner Single Malt – Jamaican Rum & Ruby Port Finish

All travel trips can be found here.

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Please leave us a review if you can, we appreciate you listening!

Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

This episode is all about Coastal Scotland. We feature Isle of Raasay Distillery and discuss our September West Coast Scotland Whisky Trip. If these distilleries and this discussion don't make you want to book at least 5 trips to Scotland, we don't know what will...

Holly blind tastes Charles and we're both a bit out of practice when it comes to blind tastings!

• Douglas Laing Old Particular Jura 13YR & Authroisk 12YR
• Elements of Islay - Cask Edit, Cask Strength Bourbon, Cask Strength Sherry
• MacLean’s Nose Blended Scotch Whisky
• Dead Reckoning Rum - Foursquare, Foursquare PX Finish, Australian
• High N Wicked High Rye Kentucky Bourbon 
• Desert Dessert from Lost Lantern, Del Bac is back in!
• Suerte 7YR Extra Anejo Tequila Single Barrel

** West Coast Scotland Experience -- Scotland - West Coast Whisky Tour 2024 - Rascal + Thorn (rascalandthorn.com)

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Check out all releases online at www.firstfillspirits.com!

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Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

A lot of big moves and acquisitions in our Scotch & Canadian Whisky world! We discuss Found North, Single Cask Nation, and what we see happening in 2024. We also discuss a Dramface article that was pretty harsh on all of this production increase continuing to happen in the Scotch industry (and beyond).

Then, we get back to blind tastings, and Charles blind tastes Holly.

• Lost Lantern Releases – Mountain Meadow, Flame & Shadow (Brooklyn Bakery gone)

• Cream of Kentucky 16YR

• Four Roses NY single barrels 

• Boone County Bourbon & Green River Bourbon Store Pick

• NEW Stauning Danish Rye Whisky Store Pick

• Just a heads up, these store picks are single-digit low: Stauning Tequila Finish, Black Button Bourbon & Obtainium Light Whiskey.

** Water of Life Film Speyside/Highland Trip Spring 2024 -- ⁠⁠The Water of Life - Speyside & Highlands: May 4-12, 2024 | First Fill Spirits: Curate | Learn | Explore⁠⁠

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Check out all releases online at www.firstfillspirits.com!

Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com

Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

We discuss the experimental and delicious whisky from Spirits of French Lick in Indiana. We took in a few cases as a NYS exclusive of Hindostan Falls Bourbon and everyone is LOVING it, including us.

Every December all the influencers, magazines, and all their cousins and friends come out with their top picks of the year. We aren't going to tell you our favorite whiskies of 2023, that's just too dang difficult but we will take a look at our shelves and pick out the bottles that we would love for someone to gift to us. Our holiday picks!

** Water of Life Film Speyside/Highland Trip Spring 2024 -- ⁠The Water of Life - Speyside & Highlands: May 4-12, 2024 | First Fill Spirits: Curate | Learn | Explore⁠

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New Bottles to the shop:

• DS Tayman is back in!
• GlenAllachie 12YR Oloroso Single Cask
• EJ Curley Bourbon – Ashley Barnes blending
• Elements of Islay
• New Rice Whiskies - Fukano
• Glenturret’s are back in!
• Old Ezra Rye & Bourbon
• King’s Honey Barrel Finished Bourbon
• King’s County Cask Strength Bourbon
• Suerte 7YR Anejo Tequila
• Fannys Bay Tasmanian Single Malt
• Glendalough 7YR Mizunara Cask
• Boone County 6YR Single Barrel Bourbon STORE PICK 64% ABV

IN-STORE ONLY CALL US

• Found North Peregrine 20YR
• Rare Character Exceptional Series Single Barrel Bourbon
• Rare Character Exceptional Series Single Barrel Malt

Check out all releases online at www.firstfillspirits.com!

Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com

Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal

Our Japan Whisky Tour is coming up in March 2024 so we have Kanosuke on the mind! Also, in the news a ton over the past few weeks is Indian Whisky. We are so excited to see all of this press as Indri, Kamet, and other brands continue to push the category into global awareness. We discuss our next Stauning store pick single barrel and don't forget to look at our upcoming whisky trips!

** Water of Life Film Speyside/Highland Trip Spring 2024 -- The Water of Life - Speyside & Highlands: May 4-12, 2024 | First Fill Spirits: Curate | Learn | Explore

Please leave us a review wherever you are listening as well. We appreciate you! Cheers!

New Bottles to the shop:

• Murray McDavid's: Glentauchers, Braeval, Glen Keith & more!
• Single Malts of India Kurinji
• Dixon Dedman’s New 2X0 Doubled Oaked Release
• Jimmy Red South Carolina High Wire Bourbon
• Raising Glasses Australian Whisky Yowie & Venezuelan Rum
• Hindostan Falls Bourbon
• Boone County Amburana
• James Eadie Jura, Glen Spey, and Caol Ila
• check out all releases online at www.firstfillspirits.com

Our Podcast Name: It's Whiskey #FFS (For F****'s Sake!) #FirstFillSpirits @firstfillspirits www.firstfillspirits.com

Podcast Music: Isaac Joel, Goldenseal