His heir apparent, Kevin, fits all the whiskey nerd podcast checkboxes. Writes notes about “candied apple and baking spice”.

I’m responsible for making sure the boiler fires and dealing with our landlord, the SF Port Authority.

Our respective roles are perfect. Kevin really is a spirits / whiskey savant and I like my boots and gloves sufficiently dirty and playing therapist to our whiskey savant about the state of the industry.