253 - OKI Relaunch, Craft Bourbon Bust, and Return of Age Stated Knob Creek on Bourbon Community Roundtable #44

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Today’s podcast featuring the roundtable talks about the controversial relaunch of the OKI brand. We examine the potential motivating factors behind New Riff selling the label and if it’s a pure money grab by the new company that owns it. We then look at the current landscape of craft distillers and if they will survive the COVID-19 conditions as over 43% of all craft distillery workers have now been laid off or furloughed. Lastly, we see an age statement return to Knob Creek. Show Notes: This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks about buying whiskey for cheap during the pandemic. OKI is being relaunched with new ownership. Why would New Riff do this and is it a money grab? 118 craft distillers surveyed recently, 42% said they do not believe they will able to stay in business for more than three months with COVID-19. Is the craft boom going to bust? The return of 12 and 9 year Knob Creek. What does this mean for private barrel selections? Thanks to Blake from bourbonr.com, Nick from BreakingBourbon.com, Brian from sippncorn.com, and Kerry from Subourbia for joining. Support this Podcast on Patreon

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0:00.0	there's two things you can count on on the round table that's I'm going to be here and that's my
0:04.4	internet's going to go out welcome back because it's episode 253 of bourbon pursuit I'm one
0:18.9	of your host Kenny and on our news this week, we selected
0:21.8	a barrel of wheat whiskey from Old Elk. But we were also joined by special guest and master
0:27.3	distiller Greg Metz, who you might recall back from episode 154 because he was also the previous
0:33.4	master distiller for that big factory in Indiana we call MGP. Now virtual barrel picks, they
0:39.9	might be the new normal for a while, so we're looking forward to bringing more of those to
0:43.8	you via live streams, so make sure that you are subscribed to our YouTube channel so you don't
0:48.8	miss a single one of them. Now on to the news. Willett Distillery's master distiller, Drew Colesveen, has been named a
0:55.5	finalist for the coveted James Beard Award for outstanding wine, beer, or spirits producer. The James
1:01.9	Beard Foundation Awards honor the best in food dining, from cookbooks and rising chefs to the best restaurants
1:07.8	and, of course, distilleries in the U.S. Time Magazine even called it the Oscars of the Food World.
1:13.9	Drew Colesving first joined Willett Distillery back in 2003, and over time he's developed
1:18.6	mash bills that extend the company's bourbon and rye portfolio, which earned him four
1:23.5	semi-finalist nominations for the James Beard Award.
1:26.7	However, this is the first year that he's
1:28.9	actually been named a finalist. So hats off to Drew, congratulations and awesome work on the
1:34.1	recognition. The winners for the James Beard Awards will be announced on September 25th.
1:39.8	The 2020 release of the Mixtur's 10-year-old single barrel, Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey will go on sale this May of 2020.
1:47.0	It is 94.4 proof and it will sell for a suggested retail price of around $130 in the U.S.
1:55.0	New bottles of Larsonie barrel proof and Elijah Craig barrel proof will be coming soon to a shelf near you, both bearing the code B520.
2:03.6	The letter B means it's the second release of the year. Digit 5 means it was released in the fifth month of the year, which is May, and the last two digits.
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