🎙️ Ep. 139 - LOST LANTERN: Blending 50 States of Bourbon

GUEST: Nora Ganley-Roper & Adam Polonski (Lost Lantern Founders)

Independent bottlers have long helped whiskey lovers discover hidden gems in Scotland, but the concept is only beginning to take hold in America. In this episode, Drew Hannush sits down with Lost Lantern founders Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski to explore how they're introducing craft distilleries from across the country to new audiences—and we'll go behind the scenes to find out why blending Bourbon from all 50 states was such an ambitious project.

In This Episode

• The weakness of warehouse tasting
• Does a whiskey change during shipping?
• Building a blend that doesn't become a muddle
• The challenge of finding Bourbon in every state
• Why some barrels have "sharp elbows"
• How they map flavor before blending
• Which is harder, 13 states or 50
• The hidden psychology of tasting whiskey
• What makes a whiskey worth bottling

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