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I wish I had a camera

I am sitting here at my desk in the still house having just selected the 10 barrels that will become batch 17.  The stills are in front of me.  A warm morning sun is softly spilling over the smooth copper contours of the wash still's hand made body.  To the left of the wash still is the "new spirit" tank.  It is made of stainless steel and is glinting in brilliant contrast.  Sitting on top of the new spirit tank are 10 bottles filled with cask samples from the selected barrels, no label just the whiskey in the bottle.  They are filled with spirit dire

Cool new website... all about whiskey!!

I just found this cool new website all about our favorite thing... whiskey.  It is called Whiskeypedia, check it out . 

http://www.whiskipedia.org/index.php?title=Stranahan%27s_Colorado_Whiske...

Cheers Jake

The Eggnog is all gone.

    The christmas tree is a pile of dried pine needles at the curb, and the mistletoe is somewhere snug in a landfill- nestled warmly among the wrapping paper of battery hungry toys.  Baby new year is growing like a weed and already needs a change of diaper.  I find my self, back at work, sitting before the stills.  As I prepare for the bottling of batch #16, I look forward to the coming year, and look back over the last few years.  It seems only yesterday that I was eagerly anticipating the first barrel coming of age, and here I sit signing labels for our

Stranahan's featured on Colorado Public Radio

Colorado Public Radio is going to air a piece on us 12/18/07 at 7pm.  If you miss it you can listen to the archive here: go to www.kcfr.org and click on "Colorado Matters" on the right hand side-bar schedule. Then type in your Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey in the search bar at the top of the page .  The interview is with Jess Graber, I guess he has a face for radio.  Cheers, Jake

Lost Dog

     Some old hillbilly once said "The only thing that remains constant is change"...

Oh what the heck....

The 2007 Scotch Blog Drammies: Call for Nominations
 
 
The emails are in and you've made your choices - announcing the 2007 Categories

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Modern Marvels Filming 11/30/07

I love history and science and the way things work.  That being said "Modern Marvels" is one of my favorite shows.  "Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders."*  You can imagine how excited we were when the phone rang and it was a producer form the MM and they wanted to do a show on us!  The episode on whiskey production is due to air on St.

Visitors 10/30/07

Whiskey is kind of a small world and when fellow "whiskey folk" Fred Noe and Simon Brooking passed through Denver they stopped in for a visit.  Fred Noe as you may or may no know is the great grandson and Master distiller for Jim Beam.  Simon Brooking is the brand ambassador for The Dalmore.  They were in town for "The Great Whiskey Debate".  I took advantage of having such knowledgeable guests and broke out a bunch of cask samples for evaluation.  We spent the better part of the morning tasting, sampling and discussing the various expressions.&n

Whiskey Fest 2007

Whiskeyfest 2007    10/23/07

First frost

With the first frost the growing seasons ends and fall is here. Leaves and a chill are in the air, and I am ready to curl up next to the fire and enjoy a Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey. With fall comes one of my favorite traditions- The Great American Beer festival. This year was a great GABF, we made lots of friends and drank some great beer.