Hello fellow Bourbon Crusaders! We’re back with another edition of Around the Barrel! If you want to know why we said Crusaders instead of Evangelists, you’ll just have to listen and find out. In this episode we talk about the Four Magic Words in bourbon (Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey), how we choose a bottle we…
Having recently been very impressed by a couple store-selected single barrel bourbons (in particular a Kroger 1792 and a Liquor Barn Russel’s Reserve), I thought it would be interesting to see what difference there is in a name. Specifically, the name of someone’s store on a bottle. I’ve often placated myself that master distillers would always…
In an effort to continue our focus on giving you the primary sources whenever possible, we’ve started a new page on the site: News! We wanted to be able to bring you the latest (confirmed) bourbon news, yet keep the main page clutter-free and limited to podcasts, content pieces, and the occasional review. Our solution is…
If you’ve been paying any attention in the last year, you’ve heard of all the hubbub about correctly labeling whiskey, and more specifically bourbon. A lot of this has had to do with where something is distilled versus where it is produced/bottled. We’re looking at you Templeton Rye. Something that has been somewhat more nebulous…
Hello, fellow Bourbon Evangelists! We’re back with a little something new for you. Sort of like our version of the Fireside Chat, we bring you the first Around the Barrel cast! In an effort to record more often and get information to you in a more timely manner, we’ve decided to start doing some casts in-between…
We can officially announce that we’ll be covering the Bourbon Classic February 20-21st in Louisville! This is basically bourbon nirvana, so we highly recommend you check it out. If you’re planning to come, let us know and we’ll meet up for some of the good stuff! More info to come later. Here’s the link! The…
Greetings fellow Bourbon Evangelists! We’ve been mostly dark over the holidays. We’ve both been hanging out with family and I’ve been dealing with an obscene amount of paperwork. While we finish up Part 2 of the Prohibition extravaganza, I thought I’d post an interesting little activity I did over the break. I was perusing my…
The Old Taylor brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey has been around for quite a long time. It’s namesake, the revered Col. E. H. Taylor, Jr., was one of the most influential characters in the history of our much loved spirit. We briefly spoke on him and his role in the American antebellum bourbon boom…
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…
