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Barrell Craft Spirits Rolls Out The Blended Barrell Bourbon

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Kentucky blending house Barrell Craft Spirits has rolled out the Barrell Bourbon blends – a pair of blended bourbons with different cask finishes – for their new Barrell Bourbon Cask Finish series which will feature two blends each year. Barrell Craft Spirits Amburana Bourbon is a blend of select Indiana and Kentucky-made bourbons with a […]

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Jeff Goes To The Tropics

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Pernod Ricard-owned Jefferson’s Bourbon has released – Tropics Aged In Humidity: Finished In Singapore – a bourbon aged in the Singapore heat as the initial entry in their climate-focused Tropics series. Jefferson’s Tropics Aged in Humidity: Finished in Singapore began as Kentucky straight Bourbon, matured four to five years in Kentucky before being finished 18 […]

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Maker’s Mark Offers Cellar Aged Bourbon

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Popular bourbon brand, Maker’s Mark, is releasing Maker’s Mark Cellar Aged – their first-ever age-statement bourbon. The 2023 version of Maker’s Mark Cellar Aged, will be the oldest Maker’s Mark whiskey to be released to date and is a blend of 87% 12-year-old whiskey with 13% 11-year-old whiskey that will be bottled at a cask […]

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Pernod Ricard Goes Down Rabbit Hole With Mary Dowling

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French spirits behemoth Pernod Ricard has collaborated with Kentucky-based Rabbit Hole distillery [in which it bought a majority stake in 2019] to create a new bourbon brand, called Mary Dowling. The Mary Dowling Whiskey Company – named after an influential and successful female distiller in pre-Prohibition days – will make their debut with a pair […]

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It’s Madness! WhistlePig Goes One Step Beyond – FarmStock

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Vermont-based WhistlePig, noted for their rye whiskies, have gone one step beyond with their latest limited edition farm-to-bottle whiskey series – FarmStock Beyond Bonded – where all whiskies in the series have been bottled in bond, having been harvested and distilled at the WhistlePig farm and distillery in Vermont in one season. Whistlepig FarmStock Beyond […]

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Molson Coors Purchases Blue Run Spirits

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Brewing behemoth Molson Coors created the Coors Spirits Company and has made their first acquisition foray into the spirits industry with the purchase of Kentucky-based bourbon and rye whiskey producer Blue Run Spirits. Blue Run Spirits will join Five Trail Blended American Whiskey [launched in 2021] and Barmen 1873 Bourbon [launched in 2022] as members […]

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Buffalo Trace Honors Grandpappy Weller With New Daniel Weller Range

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Buffalo Trace Distillery has honored Daniel Weller – the ‘forefather of American whiskey’ and grandfather to William Larue (WL) Weller, who was the first to sell a wheated bourbon in Kentucky – with a new range of bourbons showcasing wheat varieties. Buffalo Trace plans to launch a new limited edition entry every other year in […]

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Woodford Reserve Batch Proof? Yes, Master…

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Woodford Reserve has released Batch Proof as part of their limited edition Master’s Collection bourbon series which also consists of Five-Malt Stouted Mash, Chocolate Malted Rye Bourbon, Maple Wood Finish, American Select Oak and Oat Grain Kentucky. Woodford Reserve Batch Proof was bottled at a whopping 62% alcohol by volume [124 proof] and is said […]

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Betty Booze Collabs With Wrexham AFC For Winning Bourbon RTD’s

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Betty Booze – the brainchild of actress Blake Lively [“Gossip Girl”] – has expanded from their tonic-and-mixer beginnings in 2021 to their ready-to-drink [RTD] cocktail range which has collaborated with Wrexham Association Football Club (AFC) players, the Welsh club team co-owned by Lively’s husband, actor Ryan Reynolds [“Deadpool”] whose documentary series “Welcome to Wrexham” has […]

Ezra Brooks Adds Pair Of Products – Rye And Liqueur

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Luxco-owned Ezra Brooks has added a pair of products to their line-up – a rye whiskey and a bourbon cream liqueur. Ezra Brooks 99 Straight Rye Whiskey contains a 51% rye mash bill, is bottled at 49.5% alcohol by volume [99 proof] and is said to offer notes of chocolate, leather and vanilla. Ezra Brooks […]

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