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Blind Wheated Bourbon Tasting by Chris

Greetings fellow Bourbon Evangelists! We’ve been mostly dark over the holidays. We’ve both been hanging out with family and I’ve been dealing with an obscene amount of paperwork. While we finish up Part 2 of the Prohibition extravaganza, I thought I’d post an interesting little activity I did over the break. I was perusing my…

Old Taylor 6 Year: Then and Now

The Old Taylor brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey has been around for quite a long time. It’s namesake, the revered Col. E. H. Taylor, Jr., was one of the most influential characters in the history of our much loved spirit. We briefly spoke on him and his role in the American antebellum bourbon boom…

Kentucky Bourbon Tales

In case you missed it, KET ran an excellent documentary on the people of the bourbon industry tonight called Kentucky Bourbon Tales. It is based on a multitude of interviews taken as an oral history project spearheaded by the Nunn Center at the University of Kentucky. Here is a link to future airings if you…

Better Ice: A New Hope, or Nope?

Update note: Use a glass with angles, i.e. not perfectly round, for best results. Bourbon Evangelists, a new dawn has come for bourbon on the rocks, er, rock, er, slant! In our unending quest for better ice, we made a post some time back about how to make clear ice, and this follows right along…

So I Tried the NEAT Glass

http://theneatglass.com/thesciencebehindneatglass/ The NEAT glass, not Neat, NEAT. Got it? Naturally Engineered Aroma Technology. I guess N.E.A.T. isn’t as punny. Thanks to the kind folks at Big Earl’s Beverage Co. in Nicholasville, I had the chance to try this glass side by side with my trusty Glencairn. My first formal introduction to the glass was when I…

Our New Bourbon Rating And Rarity Scale

Sorry this took so long to get out, I’ve been procrastinating. Hopefully my Bourbon On The Shelf didn’t notice. Enjoy our new rating scales! Part 1 – Beautiful Bourbon Barrel Scale We are not, primarily, a bourbon review site. There are plenty of people already doing this, and doing it pretty well. We try to…

BOTB’s Favorite Things

Just like Oprah, we have things that we like. Seeing as the holiday season is coming up quickly, we thought it would be a good idea to post some things we’ve enjoyed this year that would please any Bourbon Evangelist or newcomer alike. We tried to keep the list to readily available items and give…

Prohibition Part 1 Podcast!

Hello fellow Bourbon Evangelists! We’re back, finally, and hopefully better than ever! In this cast we take on the first part of Prohibition from Post-Revolutionary America to the ratification of the 18th Amendment. Darren will talk about all his excellent information from the Great American Whiskey Fair in Columbia, SC. Then we also have a…

Thank you! 5K Visitors!

Today we reached 5,000 visitors to the site! Thank you so much fellow Bourbon Evangelists! We know we aren’t the best at updating, but we really do try to put out quality content that gives listeners something a little different. We appreciate you all giving us a reason to drink more bourbon and research it…

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