A Career Change? I’ll Drink to That!<br />Ms. Milam also struck gold when the 86-proof, single-barrel bourbon whiskey she makes under the brand<br />name Ben Milam was awarded a coveted Double Gold at the 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.<br />Ms. Milam was unaware that he had entered the competition with the single-barrel bourbon, which had been distilled<br />and aged in oak barrels in Tennessee, aged in Kentucky and then brought to Texas for additional aging and bottling.<br />“She said, ‘I think for women, drinking whiskey is the last frontier of equality,’” Ms. Milam said.<br />“I’m sure that she’s going to do great in the whiskey business because whatever she does, works.”<br />Ms. Milam said she figured she would never do anything in the music business to top that, and it freed her to pursue other ventures.
