You’ll never meet a nicer guy than Conor O’Driscoll, and you’ll never visit a cooler distillery than Heaven Hill’s Bernheim facility in Louisville with a column still that looks more like a rocket silo than a whiskey machine. You’ll also never see a more jaw-dropping sight in Kentucky than the Heaven Hill campus in Bardstown with its 50+ warehouses and 1.9 million barrels currently aging. As Conor mentions in the conversation, Heaven Hill is also still a family-owned company, unlike many of Kentucky’s other famed producers, which is also pretty cool.
But don’t take my word for it. Listen to Heaven Hill master distiller Conor O’Driscoll break it down.
-David Driscoll