Eastern Standard, produced by host Tom Martin for WEKU, NPR’s affiliate in Eastern and Central Kentucky, is a radio magaize of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in Kentucky. Tom is a network radio news veteran (AP Radio, RKO Network…
Martin Markvardsen joined Highland Park as a brand ambassador in 2006. Since then, he’s traveled the world touting the virtues of his favorite whisky. He’s… Read More
By Douglas Fraser Rating: B Redemption Single Barrel Bourbon is hand selected by Master Blender Alan Kennedy for character, structure, and balance. But it is also a Bottled in Bond whiskey, meaning distilled by only one distillery in a single distilling season, matured in a government-supervised warehouse and bottled at 100 proof. It’s also at …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Jim Beam earned the top spot as America’s best-selling bourbon company only in recent years, and much of the credit for seizing that crown does not go to Jim Beam itself. Instead, it goes to the steady promotion of the many brands owned by the company. The endgame came when …
Deutsch Family Spirits has made a strong showing of Summer 2026 with two major Redemption Whiskey releases. The first release combines the standards of the Bottled and Bond Act of 1897 with the simple, but strict requirement of the single barrel whiskey: Redemption Single Barrel Bonded Bourbon. Aged to six years, which is two years …
Hard Truth Distilling Co. announces the release of its third 2026 Master Distiller’s Reserve whiskey: Dark Roast Rye. This new release is a 50-50 blend of two different Kentucky style ryes (51% rye and 38% corn in both cases), but in one part the malted barley is chocolate malt and the other caramel malt. For …
Deutsch Family Spirits-owned brand Bib & Tucker is coming out with a Tennessee bottled in bond bourbon that is double the statutory requirement for age in September. “But how can a sourced brand be bottled in bond?” asks the croakers. The whiskey in question was distilled at Tennessee Distilling Group in Columbia in 2018. The …
Heaven Hill has stepped into new territory by releasing a bottled in bond bourbon drawing on not one, but two of its mash bills. It is easy to imagine many a croaker will greet this news with outrage in this easily outraged age, but such a bourbon would not violate the terms of the Bottled …
Jackson Purchase Distillery, named for the far Western Kentucky region that hosts it, released its flagship expression in Jackson Purchase Select Batch Bourbon last September. Now the company started by Craig Beam, seventh generation Beam family distiller and former Heaven Hill Master Distiller, and Terry Ballard has a new expression out in the form of …
Buffalo Trace Distillery has revived Four Grain and Cured Oak – a pair of bourbons from their Colonel EH Taylor, Jr. series – with Four Grain due to become an annual limited release while Cured Oak is being slotted in as an occasional release. Colonel EH Taylor, Jr. Four Grain Bourbon is a small-batch bourbon […]
