This week we welcome Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, founders of Brother’s Bond Bourbon. You may know them best from their hit show the Vampire Diaries, they have now focused their attention on whiskey! We sit down and talk about all things Brother’s Bond. Everything from drinking whiskey on the set of the Vampire Diaries to being named by Forbes as one of the top 5 whiskeys in the market today. It’s a great episode with Brother’s Bond on this weeks Bourbon Showdown Podcast!

This week we welcome Lynette Green from Jack Daniel’s and Brown-Forman to the Bourbon Showdown to talk all things Marketing and Jack Daniel’s! Lynette and I sit down and we do a deep dive on how you build a brand from a marketing perspective, we talk about how the market has changed for spirits, how her team focuses on a global audience and how she works to bring Brown-Forman brands to the masses not by the barrel but by the click. It’s a great conversation and I get to geek out with Lynette on the other side of whiskey this week on The Bourbon Showdown Podcast.

This week we welcome Pete Barger from Southern Distilling Co. to the Bourbon Showdown to talk all things Contract Distilling! We talk about how Southern Distilling Co. got started, what their goal was for North Carolina and how they are giving our state its Whiskey Identity back through their Southern Star Bourbon, Hunting Creek Straight Rye, countless other expressions and by distilling for over 150 brands worldwide! It’s a deep dive into the business of Contract Distilling and good whiskey on this weeks Bourbon Showdown Podcast.