MGP Ingredients, Inc., a leading provider of distilled and branded spirits and food ingredient solutions, announced it has begun a $12 million barrel warehouse expansion to meet growing consumer demand for its American whiskey. Construction of the new barrel warehouse facility has recently begun in Williamstown, Kentucky, and marks the company’s second major investment in …
It’s been more than a decade since Bill Samuels, Jr. “retired” as chairman of Maker’s Mark and turned the reins over to his son Rob, but the 82-year-old Bourbon legend seems just as busy today as ever. He joined us from his office at Maker’s Mark headquarters for the #HappyHourLive webcast the other night for a wide-ranging discussion of everything from his early days to being a mentor for today’s generation of emerging distillers. Join us each Friday night at 5:00pm New York time for our live webcasts on the WhiskyCast YouTube channel, our Facebook page, Twitter, and Twitch. Links: Read More »
Time for our annual visit with the guys from “Off Track with Hinch & Rossi” podcast for a virtual whiskey tasting session. IndyCar veterans Alexander Rossi and James Hinchcliffe joined us for the #HappyHourLive webcast, along with producer Tim Durham and their special guest, Marco Andretti. We tasted the Heaven’s Door Redbreast Edition Bourbon, the Dickel/Leopold Bros. Rye collaboration, Redwood Empire’s Lost Monarch, and the Crown Royal Noble Collection Winter Wheat edition. Join us for our live webcasts every Friday night at 5:00pm New York time on the WhiskyCast YouTube channel, our Facebook page, Twitter, and Twitch. Links: Heaven’s Door | George Read More »
This Four Gate Old Sherry Pike is interesting. Not because it’s a bourbon finished in sherry, but because that’s all it is. Usually Four Gate works with Kelvin Cooperage to put out some kind of crazy zebra cask combo or charred and toast setup, but with this one it’s just bourbon finished in ex-sherry casks […]
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Seems like everyone is doing a toasted barrel bourbon these days, so I guess it was only a matter of time before Jim Beam brought us Basil Hayden Toast, or something like it. Though with all the experimentation they’ve been doing with the Basil Hayden line, I’m not surprised and it does seem like a […]
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Bookers 2021-04 “Noe Strangers Batch” was the last batch released in 2021 and we have yet to see batch 01 of 2022 come out so as of writing, this is the most current batch. 2021 was a weird year for a lot of reasons, but in the whiskey world it brought about some odd Booker’s. […]
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There was a time I was convinced I could review a Wild Turkey 101 bottling from every year. Well, maybe not every year. But from 1971 onward, sure. Things started well. Within the first three years of this blog, I managed to cover numerous releases fro…
