by Randy Warren | Jan 6, 2026 | General Audience
The night before I met Misty Blu Stewart, Director of Brand Experience at Bourbon Plus, she had just wrapped up a filming session at Liquor Lab in Nashville, where attendees got to mix cocktails on camera for Bourbon Plus’s new YouTube channel. Misty Blu is a...
by Randy Warren | Dec 18, 2025 | General Audience
Hey there, whiskey friends! Randy Warren here from Whiskey Shenanigans, and I’ve got to tell you about some of the coolest gifts I’ve come across for whiskey lovers. The holidays are coming up fast. What should you buy for the whiskey enthusiast in your...
by Randy Warren | Dec 2, 2025 | General Audience
“Onyx & Amber is the kind of whiskey project that makes me stop, smile, and think, “OK, this guy is playing a different game.” As I sat talking with Benjamin Rosen, the head of Onyx & Amber in Denver, Colorado, I kept coming back to one idea: he breaks a lot...
by Randy Warren | Nov 30, 2025 | General Audience
Harlen Wheatley, master distiller at Buffalo Trace in Franklin, Kentucky since 2005, represents something special in American whiskey. He’s a master distiller at a historic distillery who treats experimentation as a core mission. Building Buffalo Trace Before the Boom...
by Randy Warren | Nov 25, 2025 | General Audience
Mike Diaz, Co-Founder and Chief Financial Advisor of St. Augustine Distillery, has figured out something special in Florida’s oldest city, and it’s changing how many whiskey enthusiasts think about American bourbon. St. Augustine Distillers is proving that...
by Randy Warren | Oct 28, 2025 | General Audience
The Dram Dad, also known as Chris, has a refreshingly different approach to whiskey. Chris, who has only been seriously into bourbon for about a year and a half, represents something I love seeing in the whiskey world. He’s not a decades-long collector. He...
