Show notes
D. Brown, @vabourbonhunter on Instagram, joins at the 2-minute mark
- How did you become the vabourbonhunter?
- How big has your bourbon bar gotten now?
- Are you someone who opens most of your bottles or do you hold on to them?
- Is your wife a fan of bourbon or whiskey?
- How do you find some of your bottles?
- What’s your best or most excited about find?
- Is it difficult to find certain bottles in Virginia?
- What have you found out about the craft beer/bourbon community?
- How did the #vabourbonslide start? And have their been any mishaps?
- Where can people find you?
Ryan Lang, co-founder and head distiller of Middle West Spirits in Columbus, Ohio, joins at the 19-minute mark
- How have times changed since you all launched in 2010?
- What made you and your business partner Brady Konya decide to start a distillery?
- How did you and your business partner meet and come up with the business idea?
- Can you talk about your family history in distilling?
- Did you truly get your first distilling equipment by digging it up on the family farm and cleaning it?
- What’s it like to continue on a family tradition?
- Being an engineer, did you ever see yourself switching careers?
- Did you think you’d be running a distillery and being a head distiller?
- You all source locally too, or at least in the Ohio Valley region, why was that important for you all?
- What was it like to win the inaugural Innovation Award for whiskey at the 2019 American Craft Spirits Awards?
- How does the soft red winter wheat give you all a unique flavor profile?
- Why did you all launch the OYO Vodka and Vim & Petal Gin?
- What can people expect with the Middle West expect from your whiskies?
- What are the double cask like and why make those?
- How did you pick your location in Columbus?
- What’s next for you and Middle West?


