Old Overholt is a very old brand. According to Mida’s Criteria of Trademark Registration, the brand has been in use since 1812 when A. Overholt founded his distillery in Pennsylvania. The brand became part of National Distillers during Prohibition and….
Owensboro has a rich heritage of distilling in Kentucky. They are known today for the Green River and Glenmore Distilleries, but in the 19th century, they also had the Daviess County Distillery. In 1873, Richard Monarch founded the Daviess County… Co…
Midway Distilling Company started life as Bluegrass Distillers, but when they had a chance to relocate to Midway, Kentucky, they changed their name to honor the pre-Prohibition Midway Distilling Company. This rye whiskey has been fully aged in new char…
The other day Bardstown Bourbon Company sent me a sample bottle of their latest release in their Origin Series – a high wheat Bourbon. This Bourbon had a mash bill of 53% corn, 39% wheat and 8% malted barley. It… Continue Reading →
Back in August 1917, the government passed the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act. This measure was passed, in theory, to control food and fuel during the First World War. It passed with the support of prohibitionists. What the act… Continue Reading …
Back in April of 2024, Steve Akley, the owner of the ABV Bottle Shop, asked me and Rosemary to be part of a group of people that included Maggie Kimberl and Royce and Rebecca Neeley, to select some barrels of… Continue Reading →
Bardstown Bourbon Company has a long history of finishing whiskeys in wine barrels. Back in 2019, when Bardstown Bourbon Company was a relatively new distillery, they did a collaboration with Phifer Pavitt Winery and released their first finished Bourb…
This Bourbon is made by the ASW Distillery in Atlanta, Georgia. The distillery was founded by Jim Chasteen and Charlie Thompson and their Master Distiller is Justin Manglitz. I had heard good things about their whiskey so I bought this… Continue Read…
The other day, Rosemary and I stopped in at the Peerless Distillery. I love their whiskeys with their low barrel entry proof of 107 and the fact that they bottle all of their whiskeys at cask strength. We picked up… Continue Reading →
The other day, Rosemary and I were out and about and we stopped in at Angel’s Envy Distillery. I wanted to pick up a bottle of their new Bonded Bourbon. While in the gift shop, I also saw that they… Continue Reading →
