April 8, 2024 is a day of total eclipse across parts of America. The path of totality passes quite near the Casey Jones Distillery in western Kentucky and they decided to release a Bourbon dedicated to the occasion. It is… Continue Reading →
I first met Marty Duffy in 2010 when I was invited by Andrea Wilson to speak to a gathering of Diageo’s Masters of Whisky at the Stitzel-Weller Distillery. Marty was already an experienced whiskey ambassador at that time. Marty is… Continue Reading &…
The Great Jones Distillery is in Manhattan, New York. It is the city’s first distillery since Prohibition and is only a few years old. They source their whiskey from the Black Dirt Distillery in New York. This Bourbon was finished… Continue Rea…
Michter’s is one of our favorite distilleries and Repeal is one of our favorite restaurants, so when we received an invitation to attend this dinner, we could not refuse the offer. It started at 6:00 pm and we were escorted… Continue Reading →
This year the New Orleans Bourbon Festival was bigger than ever. It is one of my favorite Bourbon Festivals because they put an emphasis on educating Bourbon drinkers. There were loads of very good speakers on Friday and Saturday. There… Continue Rea…
I picked up a bottle of this Rye whiskey the other day at Kentucky Artisan Distillery in Crestwood, Kentucky. It is a Rye whiskey that was sent on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia through the Panama Canal, on to New… Continue Reading →
Thomas Batman was a leader in the distilling industry in Louisville in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known as the “Brandy King” because he bought apple brandy he could get from all of the brandy distilleries… Continue Reading →…
The Widow Jane Distillery in Brooklyn, New York, is one of my favorite distilleries. They have been producing some amazingly good whiskeys in the last four years or so. It is mostly sourced and contract-distilled whiskey as they are a… Continue…
Kentucky Artisan Distillery in Crestwood, Kentucky, comes out with a different version of their Whiskey Row Bourbon every year. The 2023 version is a marriage of their own distilled Bourbon with some sourced barrels from Indiana. I have always enjoyed….
I recently received a surprise gift in the mail from one of my friends who works for the Ben Holladay Distillery in Weston Missouri. Her father had worked for Schenley in Texas and she found this booklet and sent it… Continue Reading →
