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Bourbon Pursuit

159 - Looking to the Horizon and What's Next with Ed Bley

Bourbon Pursuit

Bourbon Pursuit

Leisure, Arts, Hobbies, Food

4.8928 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Everyone has some news to share this week. We welcome, Fred Minnick, as a new co-host to the show and kick off a new segment called "Above the Char". Ed Bley, multi-appearance guest on the show, has some news to share as well. Can you guess what it is? What's going to happen to Old Baldy? What's on the horizon for everyone? Enjoy this week's episode! Show Notes: This week's "Above the Char" with Fred Minnick discusses cigar barrels or cigar blends Ed is leaving Cork N Bottle and opening a distillery What's the name of it? What happens after barreling? Are you going to be distilling or just sourcing? Focus on filtration and proofing Did you find your great great grandpappys old recipe? How did you feel Cork N Bottle groomed you for this? Elephant in the room... what's happening with Old Baldy? Narrow it down, what does it mean that your focus will be on filtration techniques Have you talked to other master distillers about advice on this adventure? Are you hiring? What's the meaning behind the name? Is there something that was the climatic moment? Do you have a legit fear that it could flop? In the scotch world, blending of other distilleries is common, but why now for bourbon? Have you taken on investors or are you bootstrapped? What's the vision of the site if it's not a distillery? Is there a timeline for having a release? How do you think your loyal Cork N Bottle customers feel? Ed, what do you have planned for bourbon and rum blends? Do you plan on changing your instagram account name? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I can't keep track of what's popular in the Four Roses fan club.

0:04.0

Yeah, I know.

0:05.6

Which recipe are we supposed to?

0:07.2

Which corner of the warehouse is?

0:09.6

It was funny.

0:10.2

I made a reference to like what was popular.

0:13.9

Like I was like, oh yeah, this OESVs is popular as the OBSK in like 2015. And remember the me warehouse and then I was like no man that's wrong

0:25.8

that's the OBSV I was like oh shit I can't like the rest of the yeah yeah yeah

0:30.4

yeah yeah yeah everyone this Kenny, and welcome back to another episode of Burbank Pursuit, the official podcast of Bourbon.

0:45.8

You know, I've been talking about it for a while now that we've got a lot of good things in store for the podcast.

0:50.7

And today, we are finally releasing one of them.

0:56.5

What is it? You've been following us on social media or you support us on Patreon, then you already know. If not, I'm going to make

1:01.3

you wait a few minutes. So next week, we are picking our next barrel at Heaven Hill that will

1:07.6

be in Elijah Craig. Ryan, myself, and four other patron supporters are

1:12.2

going to make it happen. We've been on a roll of barrel picks recently and we've got more

1:16.5

in the pipeline thanks to kegan bottle out of the San Diego area. We've been working together over

1:22.7

the past few weeks and Bourbon Pursuit gets first crack at every barrel to any of their nine stores.

1:29.3

So make sure you show your love by checking out keg and bottle, that's kegg, the letter

1:34.8

in and bottle.com, where you can shop their huge online selection of over 700 plus different

1:41.9

whiskeys and you can have them delivered to your door around the country.

1:46.3

Now, today's episode features someone who isn't new to the show.

1:49.8

Ed Bly has put himself on the map and has not only been recognized in the underground verbin community,

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