Episode 243: Hank Ingram: Mellowed on the Mississippi
What happens when generations of river knowledge meet one of America’s oldest spirits? On this episode, Hank Ingram, founder of The Ingram Distillery in Columbus, Kentucky, shares his family’s history in river transportation and the idea that led him to age whiskey aboard permanently moored barges on the Mississippi River. Ingram shares how an MBA project grew into a pioneering business, why the river’s motion, humidity and temperature shifts create a distinctive aging environment and what it took to navigate the legal, scientific and logistical challenges of launching the operation. He also…
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