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A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

069: Angel's Envy Whiskey Toasts The Trees with Ashley Erwin

A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

Marjorie Alexander

Society & Culture, Science, Nature

4.6 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Ashley Erwin grew up in rural, northern Georgia. In her words it was the "Type of place where fertilizer goes to greeting ya soon as the front door went to close, where cow tipping and horse jacking and bonfire-truck-meet-ups with blue label sodas stacked heavy in ice chests were the norm, and where 'mams and sirs were added on to ever'thing less a slap upside the head were what ya's hankering after."

 

In this episode, Ashley Erwin and Marjorie Alexander cover:

  • Why Angel's Envy is teaming up with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees and how you can get involved
  • What makes bourbon…BOURBON? Why, the trees of course!
  • The family history of Angel's Envy, including Lincoln Henderson, the creator of Woodford Reserve, Jack Daniel's Single Barrel as well as JD's "Gentleman Jack" 
  • What techniques go into making Angel's Envy bourbons and ryes so unique

 

*** Use the hashtag #ToastTheTrees along with images of Angel's Envy cocktails, neat pours and bottles. Let's give Ashley lots of trees to plant next year in Kentucky! ***

  

Connect with Angel's Envy, Ashley Erwin and the rest of the Whiskey Guardians:

 

Suggested Resources from Ashley:

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is A Sustainable Mind, Episode 69.

0:04.0

Today we'll be chatting with Ashley Irwin, a whiskey guardian at Angels Envy, about the part that trees play in the whiskey making process and how Angels Envy is doing their part to make sure that whiskey is more sustainable.

0:17.0

But before we get into that, I'd like to thank our donors.

0:20.0

Amanda B. from Laramie, Wyoming. But before we get into that, I'd like to thank our donors.

0:21.6

Amanda B. from Laramie, Wyoming.

0:24.6

Elizabeth B. from Oak Park, Illinois.

0:27.6

Vincent A. from Las Vegas, Nevada.

0:30.6

Jessica D. from Topeka, Kansas.

0:33.6

Margaret E. from Baltimore, Maryland.

0:35.6

And our largest donor of September, Cynthia L from Studio City, California.

0:41.4

Thank you all so much for supporting A Sustainable Mind.

0:44.8

If you are interested in supporting A Sustainable Mind podcast, we are now a 501C3 charitable organization, and your donation is tax deductible.

0:53.9

Just click the support tab at the top of our

0:56.1

homepage at asustainablemind.com or click the link on any of our social media pages.

1:04.2

Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns,

1:11.6

organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental change makers of tomorrow.

1:17.6

I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander.

1:24.6

Ashley Irwin is a Whiskey Guardian for Angels Envy, the final project of the late great

1:31.5

Lincoln Henderson, the creator of some of the most well-known whiskey brands, and his son, Wes.

1:37.1

I met Ashley at a whiskey appreciation event earlier this month, and she's here to share with us

1:41.9

a bit about the brand and their campaign, Toast the

1:45.4

Trees, where they are hoping to plant 30,000 trees, one for every social media posts with the

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