Thursday had us on the road early in order to get to Buffalo Trace by 9:00 a.m. We arrived and I let the gift shop folks know that we were there to see the BT Barrel Program Manager, Beau. About 10 minutes later Beau shows up and apologizes…
For the annual Kentucky trip we decided to head down a day early and do some range shooting on a friends property. 10 acres and a Kentucky hollow provided nice range shooting of 25 feet to 100 yards. There were about 8-10 of us with one mem…
I’ve just returned from Kentucky where this last week we conducted the annual barrel picking endeavor. Visits to Four Roses, Buffalo Trace, Jim Beam and Wild Turkey yielded multiple barrel picks that I’m very excited about. The week started …
Last Thursday I conducted a tasting at Jack Rose Dining Saloon in Washington D.C. A financial consulting firm I’ve done business with for a number of years asked that I host a tasting event for their male clients. Throughout the year they d…
Crusaders, sincere apologies for the delay on getting this one out, but we had a great deal of technical difficulty in post production. If you notice anything abnormal in the cast itself, that’s probably why. And by abnormal, I don’t just mean our usual abnormal selves! In this Around the Barrel, we talk through our…
Two weeks from today I’ll be headed down to Kentucky for the annual barrel pick festivities. I recognize that I neglected to write much about last years picks and hope to remedy that this year.We moved the arrival date a number of weeks to May in…
I’ve been smoking cigars regularly for about 9 years. Prior to that, a cigar would be enjoyed during a round of golf or maybe while mowing the lawn. Since 2006, I’ve enjoyed some very fine domestic and cuban expressions and like whisk…
A friend and fellow bourbon media colleague, Bill of Modern Thirst, started a group project of sorts with us and several other bourbon media folk. The premise is easy to envision: What would you buy if you had a Benjamin, a $100 bill, to spend on bourbon at the store? Rules: Disregard sales tax, only bourbon,…
Recently the guys at Modern Thirst proposed a nearly impossible question to a slew of bourbon writers, “If you had $100 to spend on American whiskey, what would you buy right now at your local store?” This sounds like an easy question, but the more I thought about it, the harder it became. Am I…
As part of the administrative tools available via the blog provider, I can see keyword searches you all put into the Google Machine or other browsers and clearly readers are questioning the possible demise of the age statement. Within the last co…
