Catching Up with Ardbeg’s Colin Gordon
It’s been three years since Colin Gordon left Islay’s Lagavulin Distillery to move down the road and take over for the retiring Mickey Heads at… Read More
American Single Malt
Clermont Steep Review
Clermont Steep is the latest release from James B. Beam Distilling, and it is their first widely released American Single Malt. Clermont Steep is distilled and aged in Clermont, Kentucky, at the James B. Beam Distillery, just like many of their other w…
NEW RELEASE: James B. Beam Launches Very FIRST American Single Malt “Clermont Steep”
Going back 227 years, the Beam name is a dynasty in the Bourbon world. Now, a brand new chapter begins. For the very first time in its tradition enriched distilling history, they are releasing an American Single Malt (ASM) whiskey – Clermont Steep. This has significance in one of the “bigs” dipping its toes in […]
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Stranahan’s: The Original Colorado Whiskey
This American single malt maker is laser-focused on using local ingredients and, just one mile south of Denver’s city center, is easy to explore.
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Your Guide to the Proposed American Single Malt Standards of Identity
On July 29, 2022, the Trade and Tax Bureau (TTB) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would give American Single Malt a formal, legal definition in American whiskey. These are also called the Standards of Identity (SOI).These standards were f…
Old Line American Single Malt Whiskey
There are two things that we know, military service and whiskey. So when a bottle of American single malt whiskey from two Navy veterans at Old Line Spirits was handed to us we had to give it a try. Mark McLaughlin and Arch Watkins met in the Navy flying EA-6B Prowlers. After more than a
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American Single Malt Finally Gets Its Day In The Sun
The TTB has just announced proposed guidelines for American single malt. What happens now?
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35 Years on Forty Creek (Episode 963: July 31, 2022)
Forty Creek master blender Bill Ashburn celebrated his 35th anniversary in the whisky business this week, and he’s one of those blenders content to stay out of the spotlight most of the time. Ashburn and John Hall put Canadian Whisky on a new course in 2000 when they released the Forty Creek Barrel Select and Three Grain whiskies, and Ashburn’s whiskies have won countless awards since then. He’ll join us on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, we have details on the U.S. government’s proposal to create an official definition for American Single Malt whiskies, along with Beam Suntory’s Read More »
TTB Issuing Proposed Standards for American Single Malts
July 28, 2022 – American single malt whisky distillers are finally getting the recognition they’ve sought from the U.S. government for the last six years. Tomorrow, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) will publish its proposed standards for American single malts in the Federal Register and open a 60-day public comment period. The proposed standard comes nearly 5 years after Seattle’s Westland Distillery and other members of the American Single Malt Whisky Commission filed petitions with the TTB to create a “standard of identity,” or official definition of American single malts. Westland co-founder Matt Hofmann told WhiskyCast the Read More »
Westland American Single Malt Review
Westland American Single Malt is the classic Westland, the one that started it all. Made from their “signature five-malt barley” mash, this whiskey captured my attention the first time I had it. Which, if I remember right, was at the 2017 Whisky Extravaganza in Los Angeles. I snagged a glass of this American Oak Single […]
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