Lessons In The Art of Camping Out For Bourbon
My Experience At the 2020 Release of Belle Meade’s Honey Cask Release.
My Experience At the 2020 Release of Belle Meade’s Honey Cask Release.
How much difference can we expect from Buffalo Trace’s flagship bourbon when it takes on a single barrel form?
“Excuse me waiter, why does my bourbon taste like a Sangria?”
Northern Michigan distillery finds this Canada-sourced barrel to be worthy of a single barrel bottling. Is it up to snuff?
Barrell releases its youngest batch since Batch 007b in an effort to capture a “brighter” tasting bourbon.
Is there an alternative out there to the elusive Weller 12 year?
Batch 001 is where it all began.
Two of Buffalo Trace’s most prolific labels outside of the BTAC lineup compete to see which one deserves your money.
Barrell’s experiment involving blending different distillates highlights an all time favorite tasting note: toasted orange peel.
How different can two Stagg Jr. batches really be?
Battle of the 90 proof Buffalo Trace Mashbill #2’s.
153.94 proof will put some hair on your chest, then quickly burn it off.
Not a bourbon, but also not a blended whiskey that uses neutral grain spirits. What does this unique label have in store?
Named “Whiskey of the Year” by another website made everyone rush to grab up a bottle of Stagg Jr. Batch 12. Is it worth they hype?
Barrell’s first attempt at blending multiple distilleries together.
Mystery surrounds this 15 year old whiskey from our neighbors up north.
Two barrels from the same warehouse, separated by one rack and bottled 2 months apart from each other.
Barrell’s final single-source batched bourbon.
Barrell Craft Spirits dips its toes into the world of finished whiskies with MGP American whiskey and Sherry wine barrels.
The new distillery from Nashville, TN has some tricks up their sleeve for this rye whiskey.
This Kentucky-only release for only $20 is rarely talked about. Why is that?
Barrell’s first sourced bourbon that was distilled and aged entirely within Kentucky.
Belle Meade’s two most iconic finished bourbons go head-to-head.
Ohio’s second operational distillery makes the move from Applejack to Whiskey. How do they stack up?
Heaven Hill bottles ECBP at its highest proof point since the new
bottle change in 2017.
Two mid-tier stalwarts duke it out for supremacy in the 86 proof category.
Smooth Ambler sources Dickel in a bid to buy time for their MGP stocks to come of age.
A refinement of Batch 008 gets older and cools down the proof a bit.
New distiller out of Fallon, Nevada takes the meaning of grain-to-glass seriously.
Perfection in a bottle.
If you ever get the chance to participate in the magical event of a barrel pick (and yes, it truly is magical) then I have compiled a couple of things for you to consider.
Does using snowmelt water and distilling at a high altitude make a better whiskey?
Changing up the label brings a whole new meaning to “lipstick on a Whistlepig”
Batch 018 wins big at the SF Spirits Competition and quickly goes on allocation for the rest of the nation.
Bone Snapper shows its sourcing prowess with another well-aged MGP Rye Whiskey.
Barrell blends its fourth batch of a New Year tradition.
Two Heaven Hill wheated bourbons fight for the same spot on your shelf.
Can Batch 020 follow the nationwide success that Batch 018 and 019 had?
Cat’s Eye Distillery’s newest sourced whiskey bottling is fire. And at 137.2 proof, it’s *literally* fire.