24 Days, 24 Episodes

When my wife suggested that I record one episode for each whisky in my Flaviar Whiskies of the World Advent Calendar, I didn’t respond well. I think my response was, “Are you insane? This is 2020 and I can barely pull off one episode a week!”

But the more I thought about it, the more it sounded like a good idea. When I mentioned the idea on a video, the positive response from viewers put me over the top. I decided to go for it. Since my “studio” is also the master bedroom of our San Francisco apartment, there’s no way I could leave my equipment in place. So I had to set up lighting, a table, my camera, and all the props daily. Then I would record the tasting video and then a video for picking a thumbnail image. Lastly, I had to tear all that down, edit the video and thumbnail, and then publish it… 24 days in a row. Oh, and I also have a full-time job for a fairly demanding tech firm. The upside to this frantic daily routine is that I got pretty quick at all these separate tasks. I also found ways to optimize each and every element of my video production.

The result is now complete and you can watch all 24 episodes in my Whisky Advent Calendar 2020 playlist. Thank you to everyone who supported me with uplifting comments on YouTube and on Twitter, you gave me the energy to keep this up day after day. Enjoy and cheers!