Since the early 1990s, when I started an internship at the Filson Historical Society, I have heard Jim Holmberg call Kentucky “The first American West”. Kentucky is the fifteenth state of the Union and is represented by the fifteenth star… Continue R…
Michter’s recently released this year’s 10 year old Bourbon and I received a bottle from the distillery. As Michter’s always does, the whiskey was aged for flavor and not just age. This whiskey is older than the 10 year old… Continue Reading →…
I recently received a bottle of Blue Run Trifecta Bourbon. This is a fairly expensive whiskey and that is my one complaint about the brand. It has a nice package that looks a lot like a perfume bottle on a… Continue Reading →
Back in 2019, I wrote a blog on the history of age statements. I have been thinking about them lately and I thought I would share a few of my more recent thoughts here today. Age statements about disappeared twenty… Continue Reading →
I have made friends with many great people in the whiskey industry over the past thirty years. Unfortunately, many of them have since passed away. Ova Haney and Al Young from Four Roses, Booker Noe from Jim Beam, Parker Beam… Continue Reading →
The New Riff Distillery, in Northern Kentucky, has been around for eight years now and they have released an eight year old Bourbon that they have distilled. It is a 65% corn, 30% rye, 5% malted barley mash bill and… Continue Reading →
The Bourbon boom is leveling off and that begs the question about the future of the new distilleries being built. Distilleries like the Potter Jane Distillery and all of the new artisan distilleries being built. There is a lot of… Continue Reading &#…
The other day, I had a dear old friend and some out-of-town guests over for drinks on the porch. The conversation included talk about the future of the Bourbon boom. I have always said that the so-called Bourbon boom would… Continue Reading →
Jeptha Creed Distillery in Shelbyville, Kentucky, is family owned and grows their own Bloody Butcher Corn that they use to make their whiskeys. They recently sent this bottle to me, a new expression, that is 75% Bloody Butcher Corn, 20%… Continue Rea…
I know that there are many people that believe that pot stills make superior whiskey. I disagree. They make a different style whiskey, but not better whiskey. The proof of this is the fact that Stitzel-Weller made an excellent whiskey… Continue Readi…
