October 2021

Another short trip around the world

Hinch (43%, OB, blended Irish whiskey, bourbon, +/-2020)Whistlepig ‘HomeStock Crop No.004’ (43%, OB, USA, 2021)Macaloney’s Caledonian ‘Invermallie’ (46%, OB, Canada, ex-bourbon, cask #67, 2021)Amrut ‘Fusion’ (50%, OB, India, +/-2021) Braeckman 11 yo 20…

Michter’s 10 Year Old Single Barrel Rye Review (2021)

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: A+ Michter’s 10 Year Old Single Barrel Rye is a regular, annual limited release. It is also a favorite at The Whiskey Reviewer; Richard Thomas and Kurt Maitland both swear by it. Although perhaps not as over-obsessed about as Thomas H. Handy or Sazerac 18 Year Old, it sounds like …

ADM Sells Storied Peoria Distillery to BioUrja

 Hiram Walker Peoria in the 1940s.The Peoria JournalStar reported it like this: “After almost 40 years, Archer Daniels Midland Co. no longer will be the primary firm that produces ethanol in Peoria. Instead, a Houston-based company will take over …

Black Irish Prepares For Halloween

Black Irish is preparing for this weekend’s Halloween festivities with a promotion to implore legal age consumers to “don’t be afraid of the dark” and consider celebrating Halloween with their whiskey-and-stout spirit drink. Black Irish is triple-distilled Irish whiskey, matured in deep-charred American ex-bourbon casks, infused with a blend of stout and barrel-aged stout before […]

A trio of Glenturret

Glenturret 12 yo ‘2021 Release’ (46%, OB)Ruadh Maor 10 yo 2009/2020 (53.8%, Claxton’s for Fadandel, Moscatel quarter cask, cask #156A, 178 bottles)Glenturret 35 yo (47.7%, That Boutique-y Whisky Company, batch 2, 365 bottles, 2016)

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