248: Celebrating Old Fashioned Week with Elijah Craig and Friends

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In a first, Bourbon Lens podcast joins forces with its sibling podcast, Cocktails with Friends, on this week’s special episode to celebrate Old Fashioned Week. Old Fashioned Week is October 13-22, 2023. We’re joined by Lynn House with Heaven Hill to discuss the Old Fashioned Week campaign. We talk about tips for making the classic cocktail, Elijah Craig’s whiskey lineup, and the charitable element of this 10-day long celebration. If you want to join the fun, participating bars are searchable via a map on the “Find a Bar” widget on their website.

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About Old Fashioned Week:

Elijah Craig first launched Old Fashioned Week in 2020 to support the food and beverage industry in a moment of crisis. Over the past three years, donations of more than $300,000 have been given to Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation and Southern Smoke Foundation. Elijah Craig is proud to continue hosting Old Fashioned Week in 2023, and support Southern Smoke in directly benefiting the bar and restaurant community. In 2022, Old Fashioned Week more than doubled participation with over 4,100 bars featuring Elijah Craig Old Fashioned riffs on their drink menus.

In 2022, Old Fashioned Week raised $100,000 to benefit Southern Smoke Foundation, and directly impact members of the food and beverage industry. That October, with the help from Elijah Craig’s donation, Southern Smoke Foundation provided more than 80 no-cost mental health counseling sessions to industry workers nationwide through their mental health program, Behind You, and distributed $109,775 in emergency relief grants to workers affected by crises including natural disasters; the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis; and other unforeseen events.

For more details on Old Fashioned Week, check out their official website OldFashionedWeek.com or ElijahCraig.com. If you’d like to learn more about Southern Smoke Foundation, or donate directly, head to Southern Smoke Foundation’s Website.

Image Credit: Old Fashioned Week banner's courtesy of Elijah Craig