Mike & Mike

Comparing two different batches of the best value in bourbon.

MGP’s newest recipe is a young 95% wheat mashbill. Wonderbread’s ingredients are jealous they didn’t become this.

Barrell uses a mix of Sherry Butts and Port Pipes to spice up their second finished whiskey release.

Smooth Ambler throws a curveball: MGP bourbon blended with George Dickel Whiskey that was aged in used barrels.

Thanks Jim Murray, now we’ll never be able to find these store picks again.

Michter’s revives the original brand name as a “Sour Mash Whiskey”

High West wants to add peat to your next glass of bourbon and rye.

Barrell Bourbon Batch #005 put Barrell on the map, can Batch #006 keep it there?

Comparing Rural Inn’s #3 and #5 single barrel picks

Michter’s has a surprise release in store for 2019 and a third addition to the Toasted Barrel series.

MGP American Whiskey and Dickel bourbon are finished in rye and rum barrels. What could go wrong?

Does a $100 Distillery-only release of Light Whiskey bottled at 92 proof deserve your hard earned money?

An old favorite loses its 10 year old age statement. What else will it lose?

How much flavor can you expect from second-use barrels?

3 Single Barrels compete to see how much extra aging affects the juice within.

Buffalo Trace Mashbill #2 fan favorites face off to see who rules at the 100 proof point.

Can the roughness of a 2 year old rye be softened by finishing in Sherry Cream Casks?

Around 110 proof and aged for at least 5.5 years old, what separates these two rye whiskies?

Mid-priced shelf staple shows the future of entry level Willett products.

There’s more in common with these two than you think.

We have attempted to compile a list of all of the allocated bottles we could think of in 2019 and break it down so that you could get an idea what the 3 different prices are for a bottle of allocated whiskey.

Most review websites tend to skip explaining why and how they get to the profiles they write about, because it’s probably boring and somewhat non-believable anyway. I’m going to attempt to explain the steps I take for my review tastings and let you know why I feel this helps.

Barrell mixes it up for the last bottle of their 2018 lineup, looking forward to the New Year.

Bottom Shelf Bottled in Bond staple wants to fight for your $14.

Cask Strength MGP juice flexes its muscle while Chattanooga Whiskey Distillery’s own juice ages.

Barrell combines American malt whiskey from around the US in an effort to bring new recognition to this oft-forgotten style of whiskey.

Can Union Horse’s low barrel entry proof and special honeycomb barrels really transform this 18 month old rye whiskey?

Are there really any good alternatives to a great single barrel from the EH Taylor line?

Look Ma! No Dickel!

“Oh, is that the bottle from that one movie?”

You had me at “135 proof.” Oh wait, it’s not even 4 years old?!

Chattanooga rolls out with its own bourbon distillate in a unique “high malt” mashbill.

Barrell Bourbon’s first major celebrity.

Jeffers Creek uses the same bottle that old-style Weller used. What could go wrong?

Malmsey Madeira barrels add a unique twist to cask strength MGP bourbon.

A unique George Dickel mashbill and 13 years of age combine to produce what is known as one of the hallmark batches of Barrell Bourbon.

MGP Bourbon. Stout Beer finishes. Who did it better?

A unique rye whiskey mashbill and NFL quarterback Blake Bortles team up for charity.

Does the fancy bottle make up for the char level 1 barrels and George Dickel mashbill?

So. Many. Barrel. Finishes.