Willett Distillery today announced Willett Pot Still Reserve Cask Strength, a new full-proof expression of the distillery’s small batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The release brings greater intensity and body to the familiar wheated bourbon while preserving one of American whiskey’s most recognizable presentations: the pot still-shaped bottle designed by the late Even Kulsveen. The …
Penelope Bourbon has released its Cigar Sessions: Chapter 2, a high-proof American whiskey crafted in collaboration with renowned cigar-makers Alec Bradley. The new expression brings together Penelope’s blending expertise and Alec Bradley’s decades of cigar-making experience to create a whiskey specifically designed to complement medium to full-bodied cigars. Cigar Sessions: Chapter 2 was developed as …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Just in time for my favorite time of year, Spooky Season, the shelves have a bottle bearing the name “Ghostwood Bourbon” on them. The company’s marketing speaks more to cowboys than specters, but that’s okay. Check out the bottle image. That more than matches it to October in my book. …
By Richard Thomas Rating: B The next step up in Chicken Cock’s core line-up from their entry level Straight Bourbon is the Chicken Cock Small Batch. The term “small batch” remains ill-defined, but rarely abused, and this whiskey is a perfect example. Mine is from Batch 30, drawing on just five barrels. Anyone who would …
New brand The Maven has made its first release, its flagship entitled The Maven Straight Kentucky Bourbon. Through self-distillation, custom-specified sourcing, and selective barrel acquisition, Master Distiller Kevin Curtis, Master Blender Steve Hughes, Associate Master Blender Ashley Moore and their team assembled the most diverse privately owned bourbon library in America, an inventory now serving …
Peas have shown up in vodka and gin before. Branch & Barrel Distilling is transposing them to the world of whiskey. The Centennial, Colo. distillery has released Peas Please, a limited-edition specialty spirit distilled with Colorado field peas alongside corn and barley — a mash bill the distillery believes may be a first for the …
I’d like to thank Maker’s Mark and their PR partners for sending this sample with no strings attached.
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By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Five months ago, I was fortunate enough to be invited to Buffalo Trace Distillery for the grand opening of the John G. Carlisle Cafe, the eatery opened inside the old Elmer T. Lee employee clubhouse. I personally found the Art Deco-influenced decor of the cafe complimented the Arts and Crafts …
By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ The Chicken Cock whiskey brand dates back to the 1850s, and its first run lasted about a century, as the brand fell into obscurity and then discontinuance in the 1950s. Like so many fallen, but not quite forgotten brands, it was revived during the Bourbon Boom, coming back in 2011 …
I’d like to thank Heaven Hill for providing this sample with no strings attached.
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