193 - Distilling Whiskey with Hops, Marko Karakasevic of Charbay

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🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Charbay is changing things up. To be a Master Distiller in the Karakasevic family, you must meet or exceed your predecessors ability. Marko decided to try to make whiskey with a brewer’s key ingredient, hops! However, some folks in the whiskey world don’t think it should classify as one. This podcast digs into his history and what types of beer styles can turn into delicious whiskey. Show Notes: The week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks about the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. How did your family get started in this business? Did you have a choice to not be a distiller? What's an eau de vie? Do you clog the still up with hops? Is there a breakdown of grains you use in your beer? Have you done any experiments with other beers? Why do you age in stainless? What is the formula approval process like with TTB? How many styles are you going to do? What is your go to beer style? What is your response to people who say Charbay isn't a true whiskey? What do you have aging now? What justifies the high price point for you releases? Any business growth plans? Where does the name Charbay come from? Where are you distributed? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	That's why we named everything Charbei because Karakashvich distilleries just doesn't fit on the label.
0:08.3	No, just one too many characters, huh?
0:11.4	Oh my God, yeah.
0:13.5	You know, filling in the bubbles in school was always fun.
0:17.9	Remember that shit?
0:18.7	Yeah.
0:20.0	Yeah.
0:33.0	This is episode 193 of Burpin Pursuit.
0:36.4	I'm one of your host, Kenny, and let's run through just a little bit of the news.
0:43.4	The fourth annual American Whiskey Convention is going to be taking place on April 5th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1:01.9	Thank you to everybody that joined Ryan and I at this past week's Louisville Bourbon Society meeting. It was great to meet a lot of you and share some of those pursuit series
1:07.0	bottles with you as well. There's also kind of a reality check for us because we didn't
1:11.2	realize about 10% of the room had no idea what a podcast was. So that's a call to action for all
1:17.4	you young whippersnappers out there. If you've got relatives getting into whiskey, instead of
1:22.0	telling them, let's show them how to subscribe. Another great article came out this week from America's favorite whiskey personality,
1:30.2	Wade Woodard. He uses some scientific methods and blind tastings to see if he could create a
1:35.9	better version of barrel finished bourbons using a mixture of ingredients in his own liquor cabinet.
1:41.4	He takes on the likes of Angels Envy port finish,
1:45.0	Belmead cognac finish, and this year's Parker's Heritage Curacao finish. And he does it with
1:51.3	his own blends. You can read all the results at tater-hyphen talk.com. Now today's episode
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