Hello everyone!
I'm excited to announce that Season 2 of Raise A Glass will be premiering on Friday, Nov. 11th, at 6PM on WHYR radio 96.9, Baton Rouge. For those that can't catch it on the radio, the show will also be up on iTunes shortly after appearing on the airwaves, and you can find the Raise A Glass iTunes page here!
In season 1, we developed some ideas for the radio show where we stuck to a topic every week and gave bits of info about the topic such as 'How It's Made' and 'Drinking In Time' and 'Liquor in Foreign Places' but we decided to try something a little different for season 2. Instead of focusing on a new topic each week, we are going to have an overriding theme for the season, and in this case it's going to be whiskey!
A few days ago it was time to record the first episode, so I got together with Jay Ducote, my co-host, brother, and the author of Bite And Booze, our producer James Lawson, and our good friend Jeremy Spikes to set the field of 64 whiskeys in our season-long whiskey tournament. We had representatives from all over the world, although mostly from the United States, Scotland, and Ireland. I cant reveal the entire brackets yet, you'll have to listen for yourself or check my blog out later, but I did want to get some feedback on a few first round matchups!
So, who do you have in the following preview matchups:
Lagavulin scotch vs. Cragganmore scotch?
Baker's bourbon vs. Booker's bourbon?
Black Bush Irish whiskey vs. Millar's Irish whiskey?
Reader/listener input through the season will help us determine the matchup winners, so let me know what you think, tell me what your favorite whiskey is, and what you would want as your top seeds, and those will get consideration for advancing.
All in all, I'm looking forward to this season, it should be a lot of fun discussing and comparing all the different whiskeys. And maybe season 3 will be a beer tournament instead?
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