by bourbonwomen | Dec 13, 2021 | Community, Meet The Makers
A bout of homesickness and a reading of Fred Minnick’s Whiskey Women led Bourbon Women member Cara Osborne to create her own whiskey brand, Blaize & Brooks. BW: What led you to the decision to start your own whiskey brand? CO: In November of 2019, I read...
by bourbonwomen | Dec 6, 2021 | Community, Meet The Makers
Rebecca Harris had a background as a chemical engineer when her husband and business partner, Scott, came up with the idea of opening a distillery. Eventually Catoctin Creek was born and the rest is history! BW: How did you find yourself owning a distillery and...
by bourbonwomen | Nov 29, 2021 | Community, Meet The Makers
Roxanne Tiburolobo (he/they) is the Distillery Production Operator at Sonoma Distilling Co, whose background in forensic pathology led to a career first in brewing and later in distilling, a career path he began back in 2013 when California had just changed the laws...
by bourbonwomen | Nov 22, 2021 | Community, Meet The Makers
Shelley Sackier is a writer of novels on top of being a whiskey educator at Virginia’s Reservoir Distillery. Her passion for whiskey was ignited on a trip to Scotland, and these days she is passionate not only about educating consumers about whiskey, but also...
by bourbonwomen | Nov 15, 2021 | Community, Meet The Makers
Victoria Eady Butler is a force of nature in the whiskey blending world. A descendant of Nearest Green, Butler had barely retired from her decades-long career in law enforcement before embarking on her new passion project, blending whiskey for the Uncle Nearest brand....
by bourbonwomen | Nov 8, 2021 | Community, Meet The Makers
Melissa Heim was distilling at Rogue Spirits back in 2008. Her whiskey journey didn’t stop there, and today she is co-Founder and Master Blender of Big Nose Kate Western Whiskey. BW: I love what you said on your LinkedIn profile about believing in potential over...
