When I first started drinking bourbon, I didn’t know what I was doing. Mainly, I drank bourbon in Manhattans. And the safe, guaranteed good bet for those Manhat... Read More...
Yellowstone Bourbon has long been relegated to the status of bottom-shelf swill. One of many whiskey labels owned by spirits giant Luxco, Yellowstone is also on... Read More...
I learned to drink in Iowa. I lived in Iowa City for a mere two years and wasn’t much of a tippler before arriving, but the Midwestern penchant for a warm buzz ... Read More...
Balcones, as I discussed in my review of their Staff Selection Single Barrel, is a small but rapidly growing craft whiskey distillery out of Waco, Texas. Founde... Read More...
When they left Missouri in 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark didn’t exactly pack light. In addition to 35 oars, 25 hatchets, 420 pounds of lead, 45 flann... Read More...
It feels like craft whiskey might be entering a new phase. It’s not quite Version 2.0 – more like 1.5 – but the number of craft brands with products aged at lea... Read More...
The Orphan Barrel project is an aptly-named venture from Diageo, which has, over the past several years, acquired unique access to various warehouses storing ra... Read More...
Purported to be the lightest of Beam’s “Small Batch Bourbon Collection,” Basil Hayden also boasts a mash bill with approximately twice as much rye as its siblin... Read More...
Old Medley Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is yet another in a string of labels from yesteryear that has been resurrected to take advantage of bourbon’s surgi... Read More...
Not that long ago, before packing peanuts and standard intermodal freight containers and corrugated cardboard, our world ran on barrels. They weren’t just used ... Read More...
