150: Richard Seale & Ian Burrell Part 1: Their New Project, the Future of Foursquare's ECS, & More

About this episode

In this episode, Richard Seale and Ian Burrell discuss their new project and the future of Foursquare's Exceptional Cask Selection series.

Note: As a reminder, Rumcast Reserve bottles are officially available in stores and shipping from our online retailer! You can grab your bottles here. You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. In this episode we sat down with the dynamic duo of Foursquare's Richard Seale and the Global Rum Ambassador himself, Ian Burrell, for a conversation that covered so much ground we broke it into two parts. In Part 1, we discuss their new project that's been years in the making, other collaborations on the horizon, the future of Foursquare's Exceptional Cask Selection series, and much more. Keep an eye out for Part 2 next week. Cheers!

People in this episode

Hosts: Will Hoekenga, John Gulla

Guests: Richard Seale, Ian Burrell

Topics covered

• rum
• Foursquare
• collaboration
• Exceptional Cask Selection
• interview

Keywords

• rum
• Foursquare
• Exceptional Cask Selection
• Richard Seale
• Ian Burrell
• collaboration
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Foursquare, Rumcast Reserve, YouTube

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