- Source: YouTube by Erik Wait on February 17, 2020
- Richard is the head bartender at the bar at Crowded Barrel Whiskey Company (Fang n Feather bar)
- Started in whiskey as a restaurant manager for 30 years in big corporate restaurants
- Started as a Bar Manager
- retired from that then found an add for a bartender for a tasting room on the weekends
- he met Daniel, who gave him some MGP sourced whiskey
- he sat down with Daniel and got hooked on cask strength and drinking it neat
- He soon found that his patrons came in and knew more than him so he needed to educate himself more
- the got a part time job at a liquor store to get more experience with spirits
- Hired December 2018
- He was always a rum drinker, likes Appleton
- Appleton in Jamaica was his first distillery tour
- He grew up in Canada
- they do a 1,000 wedding a year there and have a chapel there
- Food trucks are sometimes there
- you can bring your own food in
- Rex and Daniel are generally not there on Saturdays and Sundays
- Just started doing tours
- Emma Nedamier is Distillery Manger her mother in law Deb is the Distiller and Emma’s husband Tommy does odd jobs there
- Emma is doing more blending now, she finished a course at Balcones
- The gals took the solome clas there and Daniel liked them and asked them to work there
- they are getting a new still
- he is 56 in may
- He had no knowledge of the Whiskey Vault or Tribe when he went to interview for the job
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