In case you missed it, KET ran an excellent documentary on the people of the bourbon industry tonight called Kentucky Bourbon Tales. It is based on a multitude of interviews taken as an oral history project spearheaded by the Nunn Center at the University of Kentucky. Here is a link to future airings if you…
Update note: Use a glass with angles, i.e. not perfectly round, for best results. Bourbon Evangelists, a new dawn has come for bourbon on the rocks, er, rock, er, slant! In our unending quest for better ice, we made a post some time back about how to make clear ice, and this follows right along…
http://theneatglass.com/thesciencebehindneatglass/ The NEAT glass, not Neat, NEAT. Got it? Naturally Engineered Aroma Technology. I guess N.E.A.T. isn’t as punny. Thanks to the kind folks at Big Earl’s Beverage Co. in Nicholasville, I had the chance to try this glass side by side with my trusty Glencairn. My first formal introduction to the glass was when I…
Sorry this took so long to get out, I’ve been procrastinating. Hopefully my Bourbon On The Shelf didn’t notice. Enjoy our new rating scales! Part 1 – Beautiful Bourbon Barrel Scale We are not, primarily, a bourbon review site. There are plenty of people already doing this, and doing it pretty well. We try to…
Just like Oprah, we have things that we like. Seeing as the holiday season is coming up quickly, we thought it would be a good idea to post some things we’ve enjoyed this year that would please any Bourbon Evangelist or newcomer alike. We tried to keep the list to readily available items and give…
Hello fellow Bourbon Evangelists! We’re back, finally, and hopefully better than ever! In this cast we take on the first part of Prohibition from Post-Revolutionary America to the ratification of the 18th Amendment. Darren will talk about all his excellent information from the Great American Whiskey Fair in Columbia, SC. Then we also have a…
Today we reached 5,000 visitors to the site! Thank you so much fellow Bourbon Evangelists! We know we aren’t the best at updating, but we really do try to put out quality content that gives listeners something a little different. We appreciate you all giving us a reason to drink more bourbon and research it…
So we swear the plan was to record the first part of our Prohibition Trilogy this weekend while we were both in the same place, but due to some additional sources being found and Judas Priest blowing our minds, we didn’t get it done. Never fear, we did get something recorded for our loyal Bourbon…
So we talked about this a long time ago, but finally got around to it. Some of our loyal Bourbon Evangelists suggested we do YouTube videos showing how we make drinks. So here’s our first try with our signature drink, let us know what you think! …
Fellow Bourbon Evangelists, Our big announcement is that we’re biting the bullet and are going to give you an in-depth study of that horrible, dry, wasteland in our national history: Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to our great Constitution. This topic is big. We aren’t messing around. You will get three (3) sections, over three (3)…
