American Whiskey Magazine

Island life

Grant McCracken spent the first part of his career in business consulting. Constantly distracted by his home-brewing hobby, he returned to school and graduated from the American Brewers Guild in 2008. In the years that followed, McCracken returned to school again (this time for distilling), eventually joining law-changing upstart Chattanooga Whiskey in 2014 as its founding distiller.

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Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection, Maple Wood Finish

Back in 2011, I was only a few years into my brewing

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