Off Profile - A Highly Spirited Conversation
Oct 5, 2026 · 57 min · 10 segments
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…
Yeah.
Right.
I'm, so I'm curious on that 'cause, like, in scotch, right, you, you have these, like, really old barrels, right? I've, I've had things that are, like, 60, 70-year-old whiskeys, right?
And they're not over-oaked.
They're ...
They have ...
It almost like they turn over at a certain point, and the whiskey starts balancing out again.
I'm assuming at a certain point it would hit a point where it is over-oaked.
And then it-
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, how do you balance that? Like, using new oak in a such aggressive climate.
I mean, we were in the warehouse, and it, you step outside and it's like AC outside, you know? It's nice and cool.
You know, certain oak profiles are gonna behave differently in the high temperatures than others.
Yeah.
Right.
I'm, so I'm curious on that 'cause, like, in scotch, right, you, you have these, like, really old barrels, right? I've, I've had things that are, like, 60, 70-year-old whiskeys, right?
And they're not over-oaked.
They're ...
They have ...
It almost like they turn over at a certain point, and the whiskey starts balancing out again.
I'm assuming at a certain point it would hit a point where it is over-oaked.
And then it-
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, how do you balance that? Like, using new oak in a such aggressive climate.
I mean, we were in the warehouse, and it, you step outside and it's like AC outside, you know? It's nice and cool.
You know, certain oak profiles are gonna behave differently in the high temperatures than others.
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