This Round's Mine Alcohol’s Impact Increases With Age, So Drink Wisely, Friends None of the researchers quoted in the article recommended swearing off alcohol given complications as one ages. One even pointed out that drinking is a social convention, and socializing is a huge part of mental health.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Green River Full Proof Bourbon Review Whether you're sipping it alone while watching TV or enjoying it with friends around the campfire, you can't go wrong with this bottle.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Still Austin Red Corn Bottled-In-Bond Bourbon Review I love the lightly piney note that comes right out of every glass of Still Austin whiskeys. It comforts me knowing something good and unique is coming.
Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame to Induct Five New Members in September The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame’s 2024 class includes the first Black chemist at Brown-Forman, a veteran visitor center manager who elevated Bourbon tourism, two distinctive distillery founders and a trailblazing retailer who later created his own craft distillery. That retail guru is Ken Lewis, retired Founder and CEO
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Monk’s Road Fifth District Series II Toasted Barrel Finish Review If you want to try something new and not from one of the big distilleries, try this one.
Get To Know Get to Know: Glencairn's Martin Duffy The busiest part of my year begins in February when whiskey events start. … Then things slow down some later in the year, and I work on creating distillery trails for different states. Yes, that’s for Glencairn.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Chicken Cock Small Batch Straight Bourbon Whiskey Review At 5 years, it possess aromas and flavors you'd expect from something two to three years older. I like it so much that I looked at my tasting notes from a single barrel pick of 6-year-old Chicken Cock bourbon and found them nicely aligned.
Members only This Round's Mine Who Has the Better Palate – Women or Men? It’s not some battle of the sexes thing for me, it’s just a question: Upon what grounds do you base a claim that women have better palates than men?
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Michter's 10 Year Single Barrel Bourbon Review – 2024 Release What is there not to love about this almost-annual release? What bourbon fan would taste this and object to any of its qualities? Release after incredible release, it confirms what great bourbon should taste like.
Members only This Round's Mine Stagg Wins 'Best Bourbon'—In Other News, Water is Wet To be fair, at least this is a great whiskey winning the top prize. However, given the number of awards won by the whiskey named after a suffer-no-fools distiller, these competitions are boring for everyone except Buffalo Trace.
New Brand Releases Remus Bourbon Introduces Remus Babe Ruth Reserve Remus Babe Ruth Reserve features a medley of three high-rye bourbon mash bills, which include specially selected barrels from 2016, 2017, and 2018, consisting of 49% rye, 44% rye and 36% rye bourbons, respectively.
Rye Whiskey Reviews Sagamore Spirt Manhattan Finished Rye Whiskey Review If you're expecting a ready-to-drink Manhattan, it's not quite that. Wondering if it might be, I fridge-chilled it, poured it into a chilled glass and garnished it with an expressed orange peel.
New Brand Releases Buffalo Trace Distillery Debuts Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Barrel Proof Rye Whiskey This expression of Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr., is the ideal blend of barrel-proof strength and fresh rye spice. On the nose, it has an aroma of white pepper and nutty undertones, with a touch of fresh floral and candied apricot.
New Brand Releases Hidden Barn Releases Seven-Year-Old Bourbon Finished in French Oak The release is a blend of five barrels distilled at Neeley Family Distillery with a mash bill of 70 percent corn, 20 percent rye and 10 percent malted barley.
New Brand Releases ‘Honey, It’s Barrel Aged!” If you haven’t had honey drizzled on a pizza, you're missing out. Hot honey is even better, as in spiced up rather than heated.
Interview Q&A with Carey Bringle, Peg Leg Porker Tennessee Bourbon Personally, I like 8-year-old whiskey, which I think is kind of a sweet spot for bourbon. But we’ve got older stuff, including a barrel from the first lot that I ever bought. It’s 16 years old and it’s 148 proof.
This Round's Mine A Private Barrel Pick at Four Roses Bourbon Is One of a Kind “Oh, we’ve had people argue about it for sure,” Mandy Vance, manager of the Private Barrel Selection process at Four Roses, told me a few years ago about a pick. They generally work it out, though, because they’re having fun.”
Tequila Reviews La Pulga Tequila Blanco Review The nose is rich with cooked agave and pleasant back notes of sour orange peel, tamarind, eucalyptus, wild honey, spring flowers and some minerality.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Barrell Bourbon Cask Finish Series: Mizunara Review This is a deep, rich bourbon. The aroma is dark with molasses, Demerara syrup, and a bold fruitiness alternating between bright, fresh berries and fortified wine. As things open up, some crunchy toffee and pipe tobacco arrive.
Members only This Round's Mine Rye Isn't All That Spicy, Experts Say Immediately, I thought of Heaven Hill’s bourbons, which have only 10 percent rye in the mashbill but come off as nicely spicy in the glass. Then Veach cited Old Fitzgerald, a wheated bourbon that has terrific spice notes despite having no rye.
Tennessee Whiskey Reviews George Dickel Bottled-In-Bond Spring 2011 Tennessee Whisky Review The nose is rich and complex, combining dried flowers, ripe raspberries and blackberries and whiskey-wetted oak.
New Brand Releases Heaven Hill Distillery Announces Launch of Heaven Hill Grain to Glass The craft nature of this unique line of Whiskeys starts at the very beginning – the seed. The idea for the line began over eight years ago as the brainchild of Heaven Hill Executive Chairman Max Shapira.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Angel's Envy Cask Strength Bottled-In-Bond Bourbon Review If you're even semi-American whiskey savvy, you recognize the phrase in this bottle's name: Cask Strength Bottled-In-Bond Bourbon. Well, it's true: no water was added to achieve 100 proof; just the mingling of sub- and above-100-proof casks to attain that essential proof for BIB.
Members only On The Road Smooth Ambler's Best Whiskies Are Yet To Come Of all the lessons Little has learned, one that seems obvious is: “We’re going to do what’s right for the whiskey, not what’s right for marketing. Do everything necessary to make the whiskey delicious.”
New Brand Releases Milam & Greene Whiskey Releases Rare Distillery Edition Batch 5: 5-Year-Old Straight Bourbon Whiskey Distillery Edition Batch 5, Five-Year-Old Straight Bourbon Whiskey was pot-distilled in a 300-gallon copper still. It is made with a mash bill of 70 percent corn, 22 percent malted rye, and eight percent malted barley along with their proprietary yeast recipe.
