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Off Profile is a whiskey and spirits podcast about the people, ideas, and stories behind what we drink.
Maks and John sit down with distillers, blenders, brand owners, and other people shaping the industry for conversations about whiskey, Scotch, rum, brandy, agave, production, blending, sourcing, transparency, and everything in between.
Sometimes technical, sometimes completely off the rails, always centered around a good pour and a good conversation.
A highly spirited conversation.
Maks and John sit down with distillers, blenders, brand owners, and other people shaping the industry for conversations about whiskey, Scotch, rum, brandy, agave, production, blending, sourcing, transparency, and everything in between.
Sometimes technical, sometimes completely off the rails, always centered around a good pour and a good conversation.
A highly spirited conversation.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
84 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
7 episodes
since Sept. 7, 2026
episodic
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We sit down with TJ Gamble, better known as Brewzle, to talk bourbon hunting, the challenges facing craft distilleries, barrel picks, and whether whiskey nerds care more about what's on the label than what's in the glass. Plus some blind tastings, questionable guesses, and plenty of shit-talking.
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Seth Dettling joins us to talk about the philosophy behind Dettling 1867, from better ingredients and obsessive barrel tracking to aging whiskey in Alabama heat. We get into experimental mash bills, pushing oak extraction to the limit, why he’s skeptical of finishing great bourbon, and the years of…
We sat down with Ari Klafter at Thornton Distillery to talk about what it actually takes to make whiskey worth waiting for.
Ari walks us through Thornton's American single malt program, from choosing specialty malts and distilling off-grain to harvesting Illinois peat along the Mississippi River. W…
What goes into making great whiskey, and what happens when an experiment goes completely wrong?
We sit down with Brett Connors, the Whiskey Wizard of Castle & Key Distillery, to talk about his journey from giving distillery tours to blending whiskey and developing some of the distillery's most …
Angela D’Orazio has spent most of her career exploring what happens when you push whisky a little further.
Before becoming Master Blender at Compass Box, Angela spent nearly two decades helping build Mackmyra and working in an environment that gave her enormous freedom to experiment. That included …
Drew Black built Circle City Whiskey from the perspective of a whiskey enthusiast first.
Before Circle City, Drew ran a large Indianapolis whiskey club focused on barrel selections. That eventually led to private-label releases, a launch that briefly outsold Tito's at one of Indiana's largest liquo…
For our first Off Profile conversation, we sat down with Jacob Rippetoe of Dark Arts Whiskey. We were still figuring out exactly what we wanted this podcast to be, so this one turned into a pretty loose, wide-ranging whiskey conversation.
Jacob takes us through his path from Castle & Key to Jou…
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