Eaves Blind, revealed

Marianne Eaves has already had a career most would be envious of, from Brown-Forman where she was master taster, to becoming Kentucky’s first female master distiller at Castle & Key. She left Kentucky to explore the world with her partner and his traveling circus, visiting distilleries along the way. Eventually she came up with the idea for Eaves Blind, a blind tasting kit that allows participants to hone their sensory skills and try whiskeys they likely have never sampled before.

The first year of Eaves Blind has just concluded and the products have been revealed, so American Whiskey Magazine caught up with Eaves to learn where the idea for the program came from and how it turned out.

Maggie Kimberl (MK): How did you come up with the idea of creating a blind tasting kit where even the color of the whiskey would be obscured with the black tinted Glencairn glasses?

I think the initial idea to do a tasting kit was just a way to bring people along on the journey with me in the mobile laboratory, and it evolved into the Bourbon and people. I had seen the black Glencairns, I had done blind