In the 21st century, people don’t remember that in the 1930s, Hiram Walker was a major player in the whiskey industry. The company was founded in Canada, just across the border from Detroit, in the 1850s. Hiram Walker created the… Continue Reading &#…
Compass Box ‘Generosity’ (51.9%, LMDW, blended grain, Artist #11 Pentalogy, 630 bottles)A Speyside Distillery 12 yo 2008/2021 (55.2%, The Whisky Exchange, sherry hogshead, cask #4, 244 bottles)Blended Scotch 11 yo (55.1%, Watt Whisky, for Whiskyrestaur…
Who’s ready to party, Mardi Gras style?! On March 1st (Fat Tuesday), the Kentucky Derby Museum is bringing Bourbon Street to Bourbon Country for a Nawlings themed soiree you won’t want to miss. The Bourbon Review Founder/President, Seth Thompson, will host this delicious evening with special guest Danny Kahn, Barton 1792 Master Distiller, guiding you […]
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Who doesn’t love a good comeback story? This particular one is 100+ years in the making. Owensboro, Kentucky sits on banks of the Ohio River just over 100 miles west of Louisville. Once upon a time, it was a thriving metropolis of whiskey making with 20+ commercial distilleries in the 1800’s – early 1900’s. It […]
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Welcome to Inbox, our weekly round up of whisky news and PR material that has found its way in to our WFE email. It was created as we cannot write full articles or do justice to every piece received. It features items from around the world of whisky an…
Double Double Oaked is an annual limited release bourbon from Woodford Reserve. It is part of Woodford’s Distillery series. First appearing in 2015, the Double Double Oaked bourbon was not released again until 2017. While initially remaining relatively unknown, it gradually gained popularity and has been an annual release ever since.
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This Four Gate Old Sherry Pike is interesting. Not because it’s a bourbon finished in sherry, but because that’s all it is. Usually Four Gate works with Kelvin Cooperage to put out some kind of crazy zebra cask combo or charred and toast setup, but with this one it’s just bourbon finished in ex-sherry casks […]
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Seems like everyone is doing a toasted barrel bourbon these days, so I guess it was only a matter of time before Jim Beam brought us Basil Hayden Toast, or something like it. Though with all the experimentation they’ve been doing with the Basil Hayden line, I’m not surprised and it does seem like a […]
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Speyside-based distillery Benromach has released Cara Gold – a new limited edition single malt as part of their Contrasts range. Benromach Cara Gold uses Cara Gold malted barley, a roasted caramel malt more commonly used in breweries and combined that with the distillery’s lightly peated malt, which was matured infirst-fill bourbon barrels, bottled at 46% […]
