This bottle of Early Times Bourbon is from the 1980s when Early Times was still a bourbon. These days it’s a “Kentucky Whisky” that’s a blend of bourbon and bourbon distillate aged in used cooperage. Which, there’s nothing wrong with that in my mind, I’m glad they’re not dumping GNS in it and instead using […]
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The second, but most interesting entrant, into JD’s new Bonded line, is Jack Daniel’s Triple Mash Whiskey. And not just because it’s new, but because it reveals something interesting about Jack I didn’t know. They’ve been playing around with making American Single Malt for at least four years. This Triple Mash is made by blending […]
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I’m not the biggest JD fan, so I approached this Jack Daniel’s Bonded Tennessee with some trepidation. I’ve never liked the original Old No. 7 or the Gentleman too much. I have enjoyed some of the single barrels but they vary so wildly in quality so I’ve been hesitant to put any money down on […]
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I have a complicated relationship with Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select and related JD SiB products. Sometimes they’re ok, sometimes they’re terrible and sometimes they’re amazing. The variability in their SiBs seems to be more than any other distillery. This variability is why I’ve steered away from picking one up for review. But then I […]
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Last week, a TTB filing for Master’s Keep Voyage, a straight bourbon finished in ex Jamaican rum casks, appeared on the COLA registry. Almost immediately, reactions from the bourbon community were swift and divided, ranging from shouts of enthusiastic …
Many, years ago I tried this Wild Turkey Rare Breed W-T-01-95 at an Epic Wild Turkey Rare Breed tasting. It was a freshly opened bottle and it showed nicely, but not quite as well as this bottle did after a few days of being open. I got this “European” (Greek) release of the WT0195 from […]
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September 27, 2022 – Kentucky distillers set a new production record in 2021, according to state revenue department data released today by the Kentucky Distillers Association. Distillers filled more than 2 million barrels for the fourth consecutive year, and had a total of nearly 12 million barrels of Bourbon and other spirits aging in the state’s rickhouses as of January 1, when they’re required to file an inventory report with the state. The inventory generated a total of $40 million in “barrel taxes,” the property tax leveled on every barrel of maturing spirits in a distiller’s inventory. That money goes Read More »
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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September 15, 2022 – Irish Distillers plans to expand Ireland’s largest distillery once again to meet growing global demand for Irish Whiskey. The €250 million project will see an all-new distillery built on a 55-acre site just across the Dungourney River from the existing Midleton distillery, which opened in 1975 to replace the original Midleton Distillery. “We have a vision that by 2030, we’ll be selling 15 million cases of Jameson (annually),” Midleton master distiller Kevin O’Gorman told WhiskyCast. “Last year, to put it in context, in our financial year 2022…we for the first time surpassed 10 million cases of Read More »
Bushmills Prohibition Recipe Irish Whiskey, aka the Peaky Blinders Bushmill, was released specifically for the last season of the show. The bottle is a blue-tinted throw back, the label has a vintage design, but the whiskey… the whiskey is something kind of new. The whiskey in the bottle is essentially Bushmills White, with the oldest […]
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