By Whiskey Reviewer Staff As a rule, for a trend to stay alive it must grow not just expansively, but intensively as well. In other words, build up layers or gain in complexity. When the modern cocktail boom started a decade and a half ago, the whiskey aspect of that began with a fixation on …
By Richard Thomas Rating: D With the rise of the “New Sober,” more and more non-alcoholic (NA) substitutes for alcoholic beverages have come to market and in new categories. I’ve tried the NA alternatives for wine, and without exception they have reminded me of O’Douls. Introduced in 1990, O’Douls was (curiously enough) not actually zero …
Deutsch Family Spirits-owned brand Bib & Tucker is coming out with a Tennessee bottled in bond bourbon that is double the statutory requirement for age in September. “But how can a sourced brand be bottled in bond?” asks the croakers. The whiskey in question was distilled at Tennessee Distilling Group in Columbia in 2018. The …
Dancing Goat Distillery has announced the launch of Stillman’s Sonder: two new premium whiskey expressions – a 10-year Bourbon and a 10-year American Single Malt, each representing three generations of dedication to the craft. At the heart of the story is Duane Maas, a foundational stillman whose behind-the-scenes work helped shape modern whiskey production. Beginning …
Colorado distillery Old Elk was acquired by Ohio’s Middle West Spirits back in 2025, and the new owners are shaking things up a bit with this latest collection in Summer 2026: a collection of 10 year old whiskeys embracing Old Elk’s standard bourbon, wheated bourbon and wheat whiskey. 10-Year-Old Straight Bourbon – The hallmark of this …
Bulleit has introduced its first new brand extension in a decade and a half, and this new bottle is their first-ever hybrid at that. Bulleit ’87 was designed to be sipped neat to showcase the unique flavor characteristics, and marries bourbon and rye whiskeys in one balanced blend. The new expression is named in honor …
Every December, the same quiet question repeats itself in checkout lines at liquor stores across the country: is a bottle enough of a gift, and which bottle says the right thing? After years of watching how people shop for the holidays and unwrapping more than a few bottles myself, I’ve come to believe the answer …
By Richard Thomas Brown-Forman has rejected a second unsolicited bid from Sazerac to buy the company, made yesterday. The terms of the second offer have not been disclosed. Sazerac’s original unsolicited offer bid $32 a share, which would have amounted to roughly $15 billion, during the merger negotiations between Brown-Forman and French drinks giant Pernod …
I’d like to thank Village Garage Distillery for sending these samples with no strings attached.
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By Randall H. Borkus Rating: B- Jeptha Creed Distillery is a women-owned craft distillery located outside Shelbyville, Kentucky, led by mother-daughter team of Joyce and Autumn Nethery. I have generally enjoyed the bourbon crafted at Jeptha Creed Distillery. I met Master Distiller Joyce Nethery and her daughter Autumn, Director of Operations, a few years back …
