Topic: A Sip of Knowledge with Colin Spoelman, Co-Founder and Distiller at Kings County Distillery

Hosts: Liz Rhoades, Lew Bryson, & Martin Duffy

What You'll Learn: Join a trio of drink industry veterans in weekly conversation on whiskey, spirits, distilling, marketing, and the current state of the drink industry. This week, Colin Spoelman, Co-Founder and Distiller at Kings County Distillery, joins the group.

Colin Spoelman is Co-Founder and Distiller at Kings County Distillery, New York City’s premiere craft distillery. Born and raised in rural Kentucky, Colin started distilling moonshine in Brooklyn as a hobby and went legitimate in 2010, founding Kings County with David Haskell. Kings County’s whiskeys are traditional yet creative, borrowing from disparate distilling traditions to make exceptional whiskeys that defy categorization. The distillery has won highest awards from the American Distilling Institute, the American Craft Spirits Association, and the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and praise from the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Whiskey Advocate, among many other outlets. With Haskell his co-author of The Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining, a how-to manual for whiskey making and drinking, and Dead Distillers, both published by Abrams. Colin graduated from Yale University.

Liz Rhoades, founder of Spirit Safe Consulting, former research scientist for DIAGEO, distilling consultant, spirits writer for The Whiskey Wash & presenter.

Lew Bryson, former managing editor for Whisky Advocate Magazine for 20 years, whiskey author, beer/whiskey writer and presenter.

Martin Duffy, former DIAGEO Master of Whisky for the Midwest, DIAGEO Reserve Brand Ambassador for The Republic of Ireland, North American Brand Representative for Glencairn Crystal.