While I watch a few more Bond movies, and share their drinks, I wanted to share with you some of my next ventures down The Whiskey Trail.

Like a lot of people, I have some favorite TV series, and, by coincidence (at least I want to think that) they have some characters who enjoy whiskey. So, my plan, as I am doing for the Bond movies, is to share the drinks they partake, and some details.

Here are the series I am going to review to start:

Justified

If there is another series more devoted to the culture of Kentucky, I can’t think of it. So, of course, whiskey plays a staring role. The whiskey spectrum is wide in this series

In the first episode, Fire in the Hole, Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens is transferred from the US Marshal’s office in Miami, to the Marshal’s office in Lexington, Kentucky, and shortly gets involved in an incident in is home town of Harlan, Kentucky. When he arrives, he drinks Jim Beam at the bar, and a little while later he gets to meet his new Head Marshal Art Mullen, who pulls out a bottle of Blanton’s.

Yellowstone

In Yellowstone,  whiskey is almost its own cast member. John Dutton drinks it neat in moments of power and pain, Rip Wheeler gulps it before violence, and Beth Dutton weaponizes it. They even have their own brand now, Yellowstone Bourbon.

Mad Men

There is something about having a bar cart in your office, and the salesmen at Sterling, Cooper, & Partners know it.

Which is one reason I have mine in my office at home.

Other Ideas

I may also look into:

• The Walking Dead
• Sons of Anarchy
• Deadwood

Until then, keep plugging the trail . . .