A Career Change? I’ll Drink to That!
Ms. Milam also struck gold when the 86-proof, single-barrel bourbon whiskey she makes under the brand
name Ben Milam was awarded a coveted Double Gold at the 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Ms. Milam was unaware that he had entered the competition with the single-barrel bourbon, which had been distilled
and aged in oak barrels in Tennessee, aged in Kentucky and then brought to Texas for additional aging and bottling.
“She said, ‘I think for women, drinking whiskey is the last frontier of equality,’” Ms. Milam said.
“I’m sure that she’s going to do great in the whiskey business because whatever she does, works.”
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.
