Off Profile - A Highly Spirited Conversation
Sep 21, 2026 · 2 hr 15 min · 15 segments
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…
Maybe there's like a one drink he paid $100 for and left a 10.
Don't put that
As somebody who comes from on-prem and built whiskey bars for a living, I have a pretty strong feeling where if you're curating a collection that has $100 pours in it, buddy, that's still a 20%.
And especially like for just acquiring it, educating, knowing about now if somebody doesn't know and I just then want them to have a really heavy handed port, I'm also still tipping 20%.
I just want them, I just want their hand to be a little bit loose when it hits that dirty rocks glass.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
I always feel like in a weird position when someone gives you like you have two drinks and it's like a $3 bill and I'm like, okay, I don't know how much to tip you now.
Is it a 20? Just leave it, call it good.
I'm good with that, but are you expecting less than that? Are you just trying to be a nice person? I don't
a great
it.
So I think my view as an on-prem kid is if I got off work, it depends, right? If you're going to your homies and you're also hooking them up subsequently with free drinks, that's just the circle line.
Now, if it's somebody I don't know and they bought that hard, I'm basically paying for those drinks.
Maybe there's like a one drink he paid $100 for and left a 10.
Don't put that
As somebody who comes from on-prem and built whiskey bars for a living, I have a pretty strong feeling where if you're curating a collection that has $100 pours in it, buddy, that's still a 20%.
And especially like for just acquiring it, educating, knowing about now if somebody doesn't know and I just then want them to have a really heavy handed port, I'm also still tipping 20%.
I just want them, I just want their hand to be a little bit loose when it hits that dirty rocks glass.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
I always feel like in a weird position when someone gives you like you have two drinks and it's like a $3 bill and I'm like, okay, I don't know how much to tip you now.
Is it a 20? Just leave it, call it good.
I'm good with that, but are you expecting less than that? Are you just trying to be a nice person? I don't
a great
it.
So I think my view as an on-prem kid is if I got off work, it depends, right? If you're going to your homies and you're also hooking them up subsequently with free drinks, that's just the circle line.
Now, if it's somebody I don't know and they bought that hard, I'm basically paying for those drinks.
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