Hard Truth Distillery is in Nashville, Indiana. They are making some excellent sweet mash rye whiskeys. This particular rye whiskey is made with 51% rye, 38% corn and 11% caramel malted barley. I was sent a bottle of this whiskey… Continue Reading &#…
Japan has been a major market for Bourbon for a long time. It could possibly trace its roots to the 1850s when Commodore Matthew Perry first went to Japan in a bit of gunboat diplomacy and forced open the Japanese… Continue Reading →
It has been a few years since I published a reading list. As I am behind on my reading and have several books on my list to read, I thought this would be a good time to publish another summer… Continue Reading →
The Smooth Ambler Distillery is located in Maxwelton, West Virginia. They created this brand several years ago when they started the distillery using sourced Bourbon mixed with Bourbon they distilled themselves. It has proved to be very popular a…
It has been over a year since I last reported on the Bourbon that Bill Thomas and I had made at Kentucky Artisan Distillers. It has been a year of delays. It is now five years old. We started the… Continue Reading →
Michter’s Distillery in Shively, Kentucky, recently released the 10 Year Old expression of their Bourbon. They do this almost every year, but did not release a 10 year old Bourbon in 2022 because they did not think that they had… Continue Reading …
The Hard Truth Distillery in Nashville, Indiana, is making some excellent sweet mash, 100% rye whiskey. This is another bottle of rye that was sent to me earlier this year. It has been in the running for the whiskey of… Continue Reading →
In early days of Kentucky distilling history, the Ohio River was the natural trade route for goods produced by the settlers. Kentucky is blessed with many navigable rivers and it was easier to load trade goods on a flatboat and… Continue Reading →
Today is St. Patrick’s Day and I thought I would look at the Old Mr. Boston Official Bartenders Guide from 1935 to see what cocktails might have been served on St. Paddy’s Day, 88 years ago. I found three cocktails… Continue Reading →
Smooth Ambler Distillery in West Virginia, has built the Contradiction brand upon sourcing whiskey and marrying it with whiskey they have made themselves. The Master Distiller, John Little, has said the brand is so successful, that he is going to… Co…
