This season, Las Vegas is bustling with lots of new stuff to explore: fresh hotels like the Palms Casino Resort reopened after a big makeover worth $610 million, or Resorts World marking the first big casino to join the Strip in a decade. And of course, some good news for whiskey lovers — according to …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Bourbon barrel coffee has been a thing for several years now, which suited bourbon-lovers cum coffee drinkers just fine. The problem with that bad, watery coffee turned my palate off so badly when I was younger that I’ve never been able to overcome the “ick” ever since. I find coffee …
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 …
Michter’s is releasing its acclaimed 10 Year Kentucky Straight Rye. The release is a single barrel product bottled from stocks over ten years old that have been selected by Michter’s production team. “For over 20 years at Michter’s, we have been hard at work trying to show that American Rye can be a world class …
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 …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B Up in St. Paul, Minnesota, three guys teamed up to open a gastropub style micro-distillery, King Coil Spirits. The collective story of Matthew Lange, Matthew Zanetti and Jeremy Maynor is a pretty familiar one to those who know the craft spirits scene. Zanetti is a businessman, and after two decades …
Nevada’s Frey Ranch, the crafty farm distillery,has released a new wheat whiskey. Bottled at cask strength and made with 100% soft white winter wheat grown exclusively on the Frey Ranch farm, Frey Ranch 100% Wheat Whiskey Single Barrel is the first cask strength whiskey from the brand’s Single Grain Series, ranging from 58.4% ABV (116.8 …
By Richard Thomas Rating: C Port and bourbon are one of those pairings that, when right, can be an absolute home run. Something that elevates the sweetness while controlling that sweetness through tannin and oak, being an easy drinker without veering into dessert whiskey. More often than not, however, the two are used somewhat haphazardly …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Scotch whisky is a drink that invites some serious nerdom, arguably more so than bourbon whiskey. The first serious division of camps in enthusiasm for Scotch are between those who love Sherried whiskies and those who are devoted to peated whiskies. Among the latter, the focus is overwhelmingly places on …
