Whiskey Reviews

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.

Rural Inn picks a 121 proof beast.

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.

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.

Mike sits down with Mike B. from the local Indy Degenerates bourbon group to discuss Barrell Bourbon, his love of Mr. Sam and then gets put through the ringer during a rapid-fire Q&A session.

Stranahan’s gives the US it’s own take on what an American Single Malt should be.

Local Indianapolis Distillery takes a stab at making their own double-barreled bourbon from start to finish.

Barrell Craft Spirits gets its hands on some interesting rye whiskey initially distilled in Poland and blends it with MGP rye whiskey with polarizing results.

Beam tones down their crazy ideas of the first two Little Books with one that sees them blending together all of their most popular bourbon labels at cask strength.

Local Indianapolis distillery Hotel Tango has distilled and aged their own bourbon it for 6-8 years. Why aren’t other craft distilleries able to compete?

Bourbon finished in maple syrup casks. What could go wrong?

Smoke Wagon is the latest, and perhaps one of the last, mass bottlers of MGP’s oldest bourbons.

Will proofing down 10 year-old MGP help or hurt this bottle?

Smoke Wagon blends 4, 6 and 10 year old barrels together at cask strength to give you the best of two worlds.

Is there a reason to buy Smoke Wagon’s youngest and lowest proofed bourbon?

Two low-proof port-finished bourbons compete for this extremely small niche of the market.

Double Rye! is the bedrock upon which High West was built. Let’s find out why.