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Dream of the Weekend with Old Forester’s Violet Rye & Tonic

Old Forester Violet Rye & Tonic

It’s Tuesday but transport back to the weekend sipping your favorite sprit with good company. Make tonight as an after-dinner treat or bookmark for weekend brunch. This Violet Rye & Tonic cocktail is a floral variation of a classic rye and tonic highball, dressed up in Spanish style. INGREDIENTS1.5 oz. Old Forester Rye Whiskey0.25 oz. […]

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Truffle Hunting for Whisky History (Episode 965: August 14, 2022)

Andrew Welford is described as a “truffle hunter” for whisky history, but his best find to date didn’t sell for a penny. In fact, he donated an original John Walker & Sons shares ledger from 1944 that he found on eBay to Diageo’s corporate archive in Scotland. We’ll talk with him and Isabel Graham-Youll of Whisky.Auction, who helped bring together the book with its new home. In the news, the Kentucky Bourbon Benefit auction to help the state’s flooding victims is underway with bidding already exceeding $250,000. We’ll have that story and much more, including a Major League Baseball team Read More »

2022 Old Forester BIRTHDAY BOURBON: Release Update

Old Forester Birthday Bourbon

One of the more sought after limited edition releases, Old Forester has just provided a release update teaser for the upcoming 2022 “Birthday Bourbon”, set for its usual September debut. How To Get It – Sweepstakes Today on social media, the brand revealed that the release method will “look a little different this year”. More […]

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NEW RELEASE: Old Forester’s 117 Series “Whiskey Row Fire”

Old Forester 117 Series - Whiskey Row Fire

A catastrophic fire followed by a ground breaking ceremony, in that order, just a few weeks apart. 2015 was a particularly busy year for Old Forester. I remember attending the official ground breaking ceremony in downtown Louisville that year for what is now the Old Forester Distilling Co, a $45M+ 70,000 sq. ft. visitor experience […]

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Old Forester 1910 Bourbon Review

Old Forester 1910 Bourbon, the final addition to Old Forester’s Whiskey Row Series, was released back in October 2018. Immediate success led to high demand which resulted in a very short supply. It became yet another hard to find bourbon. Fortunately these days, supply now keeps up with demand, and Old Forester 1910 is generally readily available.

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Old Forester 1897 Bourbon Review

Please enjoy my Old Forester 1897 Bourbon Review! As with all of the bourbons in the Old Forester Whiskey Row series, the year on the label has significance for Old Forester, or for bourbon in general. In this case it is both. 1897 is the year that saw the passage of the Bottled in Bond Act. Let’s quickly review the act itself and its namesake Old Forester 1897 Bourbon.

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Old Forester 1870 Bourbon Review

Old Forester 1870 Original Batch Bourbon was the first release of Old Forester’s Whiskey Row Series, back in November 2014. It was developed by Marianne Eaves, who was Master Taster at Brown-Forman at the time, in conjunction with Chris Morris, Brown-Forman Master Distiller and VP of Whiskey Innovation.

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