Blending Music With Whiskey: The Format & Ben Holladay Bourbon

Tyler Foran
8 min readJun 11, 2024

This is an augmented transcript from the 05.06.2024 episode of Bourbon Note Tasting (formally Bourbon On Wax), a Spotify podcast that talks about music and whiskey, and how they blend well together. Link to the show below.

Hi there, and welcome to a somewhat different episode of Bourbon Note Tasting. I’m your host Tyler.

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Blending “Snails” Single Cover Art with Ben Holladay Bourbon — By Tyler Foran

Before we get into what I’m calling a companion episode to Saturday’s Kentucky Derby Special, I invite you to like, subscribe, follow, gibe five stars and leave a review for Bourbon Note Tasting here, exclusively on Spotify. Maybe if enough people do this, I can keep using music after they stop that option in June!? Maybe? Who knows.

So, again, welcome. What makes this epee weppie unique is that we’ve already talked about both subjects. Both Ben Holladay Bourbon and The Format. Well sorta.

If you caught Saturday’s special, we talked about the music of Nate Ruess, which included The Format and we covered Ben Holladay Soft Red Wheat and how it tasted like Nelly’s Country Grammar.

For this EP, we’ll talk about how The Format’s “Snails” pairs well with Ben Holladay bottled-in-bond.

But before we get into that, here’s a song from The Format, Here’s I’m Actual

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Tyler Foran

Born and raised in Arizona, Tyler has lived in California, New Hampshire, and Tennessee. He is the author of five novels and was once an alright musician.