316 - More About Michter's with Master Distiller Dan McKee

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We’ve had the opportunity to interview lots of great people from Michter's such as their Master of Maturation Andrea Wilson, President Joseph Magliocco, and their former Master Distiller Pam Heilmann. When Pam retired in April of 2019, Dan McKee stepped in. Dan worked alongside Pam at Jim Beam for many years and has a wealth of industry knowledge. We talk about selecting barrels for the 20 and 25 year old releases and learn more about what goes into their everyday products. Show Notes: This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick (@fredminnick) talks about local store relationships. What's the funniest animal you've owned as a pet? Are there ever any bad barrels when selecting Michter's 20 and 25? What is your process for choosing older releases? How did you train your palate to pick these releases? What was it like working at Jim Beam? What can you tell us about your yeast? Talk about the distillery. Do you have specific protocols for picking barrels from certain places in the warehouse? How big are the batches? Is it easier to blend smaller batches? What was the transition like to Master Distiller? Do you overlap job tasks with Andrea? Are you a morning taster? What variations do you see in barrel proof? Does lower entry proof age well? What about the heat cycled warehouses? Talk about the toasted barrel craze. Any professional goals for 2021? @michterswhiskey, @michtersmasterdistiller Support this Podcast on Patreon

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0:00.0	Don't screw up. That's the goal.
0:02.2	I'm sure that's Joe, that's what Joe would want to hear.
0:05.2	The train is on the tracks moving forward.
0:07.7	It is not my job to slow it down.
0:09.6	And so,
0:10.6	Hey, everyone. It's episode 316 of Urban Pursuit, the podcast featuring news, reviews, and
0:25.1	interviews with people making the bourbon whiskey industry happen.
0:28.8	I'm one of your host, Kenny Coleman, and before we start today's episode, talking to Dan McKee
0:33.2	from Micters, here's your weekly Bourbon News Update.
0:36.6	A lawsuit challenging Rhode Island's
0:38.4	ban on National Direct to Consumer Alcohol Sales has survived a big procedural challenge.
0:44.7	U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. on last Friday rejected the state's attempt to get
0:49.7	the case thrown out for a lack of standing. The suit was filed back in 2019 and argues that the
0:55.8	prohibition of out-of-state company shipping booze directly to Rhode Island residents
1:00.4	without first stopping at a wholesaler or a local retailer is an unconstitutional infringement
1:06.5	on interstate commerce. There's a big problem with distillation right now, and that's the
1:11.7	stillage or the byproduct waste. You've probably heard about distilleries giving it to farmers
1:16.7	to feed their cows, but there's a new problem on the horizon, and that's there's too much
1:21.6	stillage. And now Kentuckians are encouraged to submit proposals for projects that will expand
1:27.0	the use of bourbon distilling
1:28.3	byproduct for a competition at the Distiller Grains Symposium on October 25th. Five winners will be
1:35.1	selected and they will present to an audience of distillers and industry stakeholders and the applicants
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