Ep. 7: The Man Who Changed Whiskey

Podcast: Whiskey Face · Thorn and Talon, Ltd

Opublikowano: 2026-06-06

Before collectors were hunting bottles, before allocated releases became a contact sport, before the phrase "single barrel" meant anything to anyone — Elmer T. Lee made it mean something. This week on Whiskey Face, we pour the bourbon that bears his name. Elmer T. Lee spent decades at what is now Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, rising to Master Distiller and eventually helping create something that didn't exist before he thought of it: a bourbon bottled from a single barrel, with no blending, no averaging out the rough edges, no safety net. Just one ba...