Episode 239 - Rob Dietrich

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Rob Dietrich is the master distiller and blender for Metallica's Blackened whiskey. In this episode we talk with Rob about his early days in the music industry, transitioning into distilling, becoming the master distiller of Stranahan's, Dave Pickerell, getting the gig with Metallica, the distillation process, the unique Black Noise process used for Blackened, unique batches like #100 and the Black Album batch #114 and more! We also discuss St. Vincent's badass cover of "Sad But True," the newly released alternate version of the same song as well as how we would improve clean tone in metal, the Hellfest lineup, the power of Led Zeppelin, our new iTunes contest and our Blackened Batch #114 giveaways. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!
0:04.0	Oh, nah, BORN!
0:07.0	Oh, not burn!
0:23.5	Hey, this is Jay Weinberg from Slipknot, and you're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast.
0:50.9	You're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast. Welcome to both your podcasts. I'm Ethan Luck. And I'm Clint Wells.
0:51.7	This is episode 239.
0:52.9	And Clint, We have a hell
0:54.5	of an interview this week, man. Yes, we finally got in touch with Rob Dietrich of Black and Whiskey.
1:00.4	And we want to give a shout out to our friend Kristen Monty. Yep. She's kind of the rep for Black and
1:05.8	that we've been in contact with. And she reached out and said, hey, we'd love to have Rob on the show. What do you guys think? We said, let us think about it for a minute. Yes.
1:12.6	Duh. Of course we'd like to have Rob on the show. Do we want a master distiller to grace us
1:17.9	on our digital interview format? Well, and, you know, black and whiskey since they've launched it,
1:22.9	you know, it could have been, it could have been not great great they could have made a bad product that it wouldn't have
1:28.2	been uh that i wouldn't have wanted to talk to somebody about right yeah i mean it could have been
1:32.5	the equivalent of like a white claw which no judgment no i'm a huge white claw fan i love them we're not
1:36.6	going to talk to the master distiller of white claw i mean i will if they do something with metallica
1:40.6	here's the deal what if metallic like rock bands want to put out shit, they want to get involved in booze
1:45.6	and whiskey and fucking Gatorade and what else is there?
1:47.7	I don't know.
1:48.5	Monopoly boards, for example.
1:50.5	And it's not always good.
1:53.1	Right, correct.
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