By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ When Shane Baker and Pat Heist set out to get into the business of making whiskey (as the owners of Ferm Solutions consultantcy, they already had a foothold in the whiskey business generally), they had two wants. Both men are self-confessed whiskey nerds at a time when whiskey nerds in …
Lux Row Distillers has announced the release of 2024’s Rebel Yell 10 Year Old Single Barrel. The annual release will be available in a limited allocation later this month at a suggested retail price of $99.99 per 750mL bottle. Rebel 10-Year Single Barrel is hand crafted according to Rebel Bourbon’s original, time-honored wheated recipe since …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ The 13th installment of Old Fitz Bonded is now out, and this time it’s a mature, but relatively young bourbon. The current offering of Heaven Hill’s Old Fitzgerald brand is a bottled in bond version of its wheated bourbon, but always far older than minimum four years required by the …
Augusta Distillery will officially launch Buckner’s 17, the newest bourbon in its award-winning Buckner’s series, during the distillery’s June 15 event, Buckner’s, BBQ and Bluegrass. Guests will be among the first to purchase bottles of the 17-year-old, unfiltered bourbon (retail price: $399.99) while enjoying home-style barbeque from regional favorite Rescue BBQ and the musical stylings …
Barrel Craft Spirits is now in its eleventh year of producing sourced, skillfully blended, cask strength whiskeys. The have now reached Barrell Bourbon Batch 036, created with a multi-mash bill blend of Indiana (7 1/2, 8 and 10 year), Kentucky, (9 year) and Tennessee (8 and 15 year) bourbon whiskeys. The final blend features a …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B O’Shaughnessy Distilling Company has certainly stirred up much buzz since getting started. While many new American distillers have procured the services of a master distiller from a big whiskey company, those are usually 1) retired and starting a second career as a consultant; and 2) American. Poaching such a person …
Woodford Reserve has unveiled a new bottling as part of its annual Distillery Series – Toasted Bourbon. The bourbon was created by happenstance. In 2017, Woodford Reserve Double Oaked barrels were accidentally delivered to the distillery and filled with new-make bourbon distillate. Unlike standard bourbon barrels, which are lightly toasted and heavily charred, the Double …
Newport, Kentucky’s New Riff Distillery has two new (but “old”) releases out: Ol’ New Riff Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and Ol’ New Riff Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey, the latest installments for the distillery’s Whiskey Club and a contemporary, innovative twist on historic 19th century whiskey-making tradition. Both bottled in bond without chill filtration at 100 …
Heaven Hill has announced the release of the Spring 2024 edition of Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey at 10 years old. Comprised of barrels produced in Spring 2014, the thirteenth national release ushers in the latest edition to the decanter series which adds to the bottled-in-bond legacy. Bottled in an ornate decanter, the …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ As Wilderness Trail co-founders Shane Baker and Pat Heist have declared many times, they were both huge bourbon nerds before embarking on making their own whiskey. Like many bourbon nerds, they had a fixation on wheated bourbon. On top of that, Baker’s grandmother was once employed at that temple of …
