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This week, we\'ll take a tour of a distillery very few people ever get to visit, Beam\'s Alberta Distillers facility in Calgary, Alberta. 80% of the distillery\'s whisky is sold in bulk to clients around the world, which means if you\'ve tried all but a few Canadian whiskies, the chances are pretty good Rick Murphy and his team had something to do with them. \\xa0The remaining 20% is bottled under the Alberta Premium and Alberta Springs labels for the Canadian market, along with the Tangle Ridge label available in the US and a few other markets. The distillery is on the edge of the Canadian Rockies, which means high altitude, low humidity, and lots of cold and snow. One of their innovations is a unique "straddle loader" to move barrels of whisky around without the risk of using a forklift in extreme weather. In the news...still no arrests in the Pappy Van Winkle theft, Diageo opens a new Scotch whisky warehousing complex in Fife, and Jim Murray names his whisky of the year for the 2014 Whisky Bible.