100 - Small Time Operations At A Big Time Distiller featuring Charlie Downs, Artisanal Distillery Manager at Evan Williams Bourbon Experience

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4.8 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Charlie Downs, Artisanal Distillery Manager at Evan Williams Bourbon Experience (a part of Heaven Hill Brands) talks about the operations, his mentorship with Parker Beam, and the recollection of events that took place at the Heaven Hill fire of 1996. Show Notes: Before we dive into it, people have to know about you. As most people may know, my wife works at HH and I was at the company Christmas party this year where you were honored by spending your 40th year at HH. What has this business taught you? Talk about how you carved your path in HH and who was your mentor and who gave you those lucky breaks? Do you have a favorite memory with Parker? Lots of people like to just call this a tourist center, but this is actually a functioning distillery as well Is it just Evan Williams or a different mash bill are you distilling? How many barrels a day? And you’re about to hit that 4 year mark, what’s the plans for the first few barrels? Talk about the fire of 1996 and where were you Other than amount, what the difference between you here and Denny over at the Bernheim plant Do you often feel like a hamster in a cage? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And then do you, your title, do you want to be artisanal distillery manager at Evan Gloane's Bourbon Experience or is there a different title you want to go by?
0:07.2	It's a master artisanal.
0:08.9	Master artisanal, okay.
0:12.1	Is it master artisanal or artisanal master?
0:17.5	When I saw yesterday, it was master artisanal.
0:20.2	Okay, all right. Okay, all right. We'll see what she says next week, R.T.s and hold. Okay. All right.
0:21.3	Okay.
0:21.7	All right.
0:22.8	We'll see what she says next week, right.
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:24.5	Right.
0:25.5	It's not going to do.
0:26.8	Next week, I'll be a pink sheet after that.
0:29.2	Well, we did it.
0:54.7	We did it. We're here. It's our 100th episode, the Big 100-0-0. I'm honestly amazed that we've made it this far. I mean, this is a monumental achievement, not only just for Ryan and myself, but as well as for all the Bourbon Pursuit listeners out there. I can't say thank you enough for helping support the show and getting it to where we are today. I remember back probably was like
0:59.1	the 15th or 20th episode and that was when we kind of took our first hiatus and people were saying,
1:05.1	well, when's the next podcast? And that's when we realized that people like listening to this. This is
1:09.7	a great podcast and I think what we're doing is completely unique to what's been out there before.
1:14.8	And we're just so happy that so many people find it enjoyable.
1:18.3	You know, with that, we really need you to push out those iTunes reviews.
1:21.9	You know, putting out an iTunes review does a few different things.
1:24.3	One, it helps make us more noticeable on iTunes. So when people want
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