Robbie and I chin wag and sip on a tasty dram with Denver Cramer; industrial designer, distiller, photographer, and creator of Denver and Liely glassware.
Dude, Denver is coo.
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The dram #
We enjoyed a sweet n' peaty Starward single malt finished in a Lagavulin cask 😍
Red wine barrels, Melbourne's four-seasons-in-a-day climate, and grassiness fading into sweetness.
Plus we dig tons into other whiskeys, like why Octomore 8.3 is the ultimate peat monster.
The glassware #
We dig into designing a bourbon glass for corn spirits versus a whisky glass for barley, smelling at the top versus the bottom of the glass, and eight years of R&D.
The staple whiskey glass is the bourbon glass:
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I LOVE the feel and aesthetics of the turbine wine glass:
then there's also the gin glass, which Ryan Reynolds loves to have with his own brand of gin:
Then there's me, the scotch drinker, and I love the feel, weight, and features of the whiskey glass:
The whatnot #
Of course we gotta bring the whatnot!
- raising kids before and after AI
- teaching them to code with retro video games
- planting 400 Pinot Noir vines to learn winemaking
- luthiers versus engineers
- and why the banjo is part drum, part guitar, part lead singer
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