The Dread River Distilling Company is located in Birmingham, Alabama. This Limited Edition Master Series Bourbon was selected and blended for Dread River by Eboni Major, the former Master Blender for Bulleit. According to Dread River’s website, Ms. Maj…
There has been an everlasting debate on how much a barrel influences the taste of American whiskey. There is no doubt that the longer whiskey ages in a new oak barrel, the more the influence it has on the whiskey…. Continue Reading →
Back in January 2016, I wrote a blog I titled “A Few Thoughts On Rye Whiskey.” I followed it up with a blog titled “Some More Thoughts On Rye Whiskey” in March 2017 because things had changed some since I… Continue Reading …
Bardstown Bourbon Company has made a reputation as a place to source Bourbon. They make any recipe of whiskey that their customer would like to place in a bottle and they do it well. Now they have released a Bourbon… Continue Reading →
Two Souls Spirits is an independent bottler of whiskey. They sent me some samples to taste several months ago and because of the backlog of whiskey we had to taste, they kept getting put on the back burner. Matt and… Continue Reading →
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 →
