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167 - EXCLUSIVE: 2018 Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame featuring Freddie Johnson, Matt Shattock, Pearse Lyons, and Max Shapira

Bourbon Pursuit

Bourbon Pursuit

Leisure, Arts, Hobbies, Food

4.8928 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

BP EXCLUSIVE! Get the inside experience of the 2018 Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame. Hear from icons in the whiskey industry as they stroll down the red carpet and listen to the heart warming speeches delivered by inductees from Freddie Johnson of Buffalo Trace, Matt Shattock, CEO of Beam Suntory, and Max Shapira, CEO of Heaven Hill. The first time ever this event is being made available to the public. Show Notes: This week's Above the Char has Fred Minnick discussing friendships and choosing that right bottle to celebrate The show starts off interviewing Fred Noe, Freddie Noe, and Matt Shattock of Jim Beam on the red carpet Transitions to the ceremony where Eric Gregory, President of the KDA, introduces everyone Louisville Mayor, Greg Fisher, gives an introduction of Matt Shattock Matt's speech is delivered unedited We transition back out to the red carpet to interview Freddie Johnson The ceremony then kicks off with Eric Gregory talking about Freddie's history A.J. Hochhalter, Film Producer of NEAT, introduces Freddie Freddie delivers his speech and talks about his dad and family - completely unedited The red carpet is alive once again talking to Mark Coffman, Master Distiller at Town Branch The ceremony resumes with Eric Gregory giving a history of Dr. Pearse Lyons of Alltech A short story from Jerry Summers, HOF 2017 inductee, about Pearse Lyons The final red carpet appearance features Andy Shapira talking about his father Max, as well as Larry Kass with a brief history of Rittenhouse 21-25 year single barrels The ceremony begins the wrap up with Eric Gregory giving Max Shapira's resume Donn Lux, Chairman and President of Luxco, shares some funny stories of Max's attention to the bottom line Max Shapira talks about his family, the history of Heaven Hill, and that growth will continue Listen to all of our Buffalo Trace, Heaven Hill, Town Branch, and Beam podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I already talked to Freddy about this.

0:02.5

Fred, tell us about your threads.

0:05.1

I mean, I dressed up just for you.

0:07.7

You know, I got my gym-beam boots.

0:11.1

Yeah, look, you got the boots there, the patented boots.

0:14.1

I don't wear, you know, jackets very often.

0:16.9

But for Matt and you, I dressed up.

0:19.3

I'm not as fancy like you and have the ascot.

0:21.4

In time. You also have chest hair, so I don't have chest hair.

0:25.9

I'll put that on, too.

0:37.3

Welcome back to another great episode of Bourbon Pursuit, and let's go through a little bit of the highlights because we're still in Bourbon Heritage Month.

0:44.8

And this means that it's nothing but bourbon 30 days of the month.

0:49.0

But let's be real, it seems like Bourbon Heritage Month is maybe every single month for most of us.

0:53.8

But we were at Kentucky Bourbon Festival this past week.

0:57.3

We are at Bourbon Bonanza.

0:58.6

Thank you to everybody that came out, said hi to us.

1:01.3

It's always a pleasure to meet some of the listeners, as well as see a lot of great old friends.

1:06.1

And if you were lucky enough, you got a chance to sip and savor one of Bourbon Pursuit's newest ventures that

1:12.3

we'll be able to talk about here, hopefully even sooner. Now, as we start talking about

1:17.7

bourbon festivals, Bourbon Heritage Month, the biggest music festival that features bourbon

1:22.8

is coming this Saturday. We've been talking about it forever and we're finally here,

1:26.8

bourbon and beyond. Yeah, you can see me, Kenny, talk at three o'clock on Saturday. We've been talking about it forever and we're finally here, Bourbon and Beyond.

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