<p><span style="color:rgb(133, 133, 133); font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:15px">I am a big fan of the Bowman Distillery offerings so back in March when I saw they would be bringing out the Isaac Bowman Port Finished Bourbon I was very excited and bought a bottle the first day it was in the store.</span></p>

On to a nice little side by side review. Couple of things to note when reviewing any Four Roses Limited Edition: Never review a 4RLE just after opening a bottle. I like to wait 2 months after opening before I decide if I like it or not. Four Roses bottles, especially the Limited Edition Small Batches, tend to get better with some air. Never review a 4RLE with a single pour. This should go...

The Kentucky Distillers’ Association today announced that O.Z. Tyler Distillery has advanced to the “Heritage” member level, the highest rank in the non-profit trade group that unites and leads the state’s signature Bourbon and distilled spirits industry. O.Z. Tyler is the KDA’s eighth Heritage member and its first since 2015. To qualify as a Heritage member, distilleries must have at least 25,000 barrels...

Noah’s Mill is bottled by Willett from aged stocks sourced from other distilleries. Willett has been sourcing whiskey from other distilleries for decades and have mastered the art of marrying bourbons together to create excellent flavor profiles for their brands. Eventually these brands will be filled with whiskey made at the distillery and the flavor profile will drift but my experience so far is that it will be a positive...

The rebuilt George Washington Distillery opened to the public in 2007, after a decade of study, excavation, and reconstruction. Making whiskey there, as Mount Vernon does for eight weeks each year, is a great show for visitors but it also helps historians better understand Washington, his business enterprises, and the technology of distilled spirits production in the late 18th century...

Eggnog has probably been around in one form or another for a thousand years, but it didn’t really hit its stride until American colonists adopted it as a drink. In fact, it probably is a more American drink than people realize. Cultures all around the world drink some variation of cream, eggs, spices and booze. It is a primally appealing combination, heavy, nutritious and a fortification against the cold. The western...

Easy to make and even easier to eat, these bourbon-spiked truffles from cookbook author Elisabet der Nederlanden are the perfect boozy holiday treat...

Depending on where you are in the country — or the world, really — you may have different opinions of coleslaw. Maybe you’re in New Jersey, where coleslaw is almost always served in diners in a tiny cup with a fat pickle spear resting on top while the cabbage and minuscule carrot pieces swim in a generic white sauce. Or maybe you’re in the Deep South, where slaw is a necessary component...

<p>Popular Kentucky bourbon distillery Buffalo Trace, over the last few years, has dedicated a portion of its grounds to growing specialized corn for an estate bourbon it eventually hopes to bottle and sell. It now has a new update out on its latest progress in this endeavor.&amp;nbsp;</p> <p>At the end of November, distillery officials noted,&amp;nbsp;the third crop of corn grown on its farm was harvested. Buffalo Trace had...</p>

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<p><strong>FINISH: </strong>The rich dark fruits and leather drop off pretty quickly leaving a finish consisting of mostly spice, oak and a hint of caramel. And sadly there was no back of the throat surge/burn.</p>

<p>Back in September of 2017, two Kentucky distilleries announced a collaborative project to put a spin on some common place, widely-sourced Indiana Bourbon. Bardstown Bourbon Co. and Copper &amp;amp; Kings Distillery teamed up to finish specially-selected 10 year bourbon from Lawrenceburg’s MGP in both American brandy barrels from C&amp;amp;K, as well as Muscat mistelle barrels.</p>

<p>Mega promoter Danny Wimmer introduced a new festival this year, and it's one that combines three of our favorite things: food, music, and whiskey, bourbon to be exact.</p> <p>There was no better location than Louisville to introduce Bourbon &amp;amp; Beyond, a two-day festival (September 23-24) celebrating Kentucky's favorite spirit, top chefs, local restaurants, and some of the greatest music around...</p>

<p>Looking for the perfect stocking stuffer for your Bourbon loving guy?</p> <p>Like most guy, the co-founders of Duke Cannon Supply Co. enjoy a glass of good Bourbon after a productive day’s work. In collaboration with&amp;nbsp;their favorite distiller, Buffalo Trace, Duke Cannon is now unveiling its most recent addition to their Big Ass Brick of Soap arsenal, The Big American Bourbon Soap...</p>

<p><span style="color:rgb(133, 133, 133); font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:15px">I began researching this post some time ago.   By chance, the contributors to Bourbon and Banter were discussing where we store our pride and joy bourbon collection.  I was surprised to hear the variety of choices used to store bourbon.  Everything from homemade cabinets (with perhaps not quite ridge</span></p>

<p>It’s football season here in the Bluegrass, and nothing says football like tailgating with your favorite foods and Bourbon. These Kickin’ Bourbon Chicken Wings are the perfect blend of spicy and savory, with just the right amount Bourbon!&amp;nbsp;</p>

Picon is a French orange bitters that’s great in beer, too, ideally a good pilsner. This makes enough syrup for 10 drinks. Serves one. For the syrup, infuse the rosemary in the honey for 24 hours, strain, stir in the hot water, leave to cool, then jar. It’ll keep in the fridge for a week. Fill a shaker with ice, add lemon, syrup, Picon and bourbon, and shake hard. Strain into a chilled highball and add cracked...

StilL 630’s Experimental Collection Release #5 gets the video review treatment today. Join us as we taste the X-5 and learn why StilL 630 decided to include a 100% corn whiskey as part of their Experimental Collection. If you’re new to our journey we encourage to read our kick-off post about the Experimental Collection and Release #1. We have 55 more spirits to go so we hope you’ll subscribe to...

In Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain says there’s a common joke among bartenders – which will last longer, your bitters or your marriage? I can confirm that my bottle of Angostura bitters has been around for several years and there’s a good chance I will be buried with it, despite all the Manhattans I’m making at home. According to Albert Schmid’s The Manhattan Cocktail...

<p>What are your top five unicorn bottles?</p>

<p>You have to give the folks at Jim Beam a creative pat on the back – they know how to playfully capitalize on interest in a particular technology trend. We first saw this a year or so ago in the not-so-smart Jim Beam Apple Watch, and now the famous Kentucky bourbon distillery is back at it again with the new JIM “smart” bourbon decanter.</p>

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<p><span style="color:rgb(133, 133, 133); font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:15px">A quick history lesson before we dive into our visit. Four Roses was started in 1888. In 1943, when Seagram’s purchased the company, they decided to stop selling in the US market to focus on Europe and Asia.</span></p>

<p>Barton 1792 Distillery has announced the inaugural release of a new limited-edition Bourbon – 1792 Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.</p>

I like Tom Herbruck and Tom’s Foolery Distillery. When I first met him I tried his rye whiskey at about 4 months old and liked what I tasted. I was impressed that he was not going to release it until it was at least a straight whiskey. I never made it back when he released the product but did manage to get a bottle when it made it here to Louisville. This bottle is from batch 2015.01, bottle number 2,480 and 2.5 years old...

Actor Matthew McConaughey is taking the lead for another campaign for Wild Turkey, a bourbon for which he is creative director and brand ambassador. This time he’s a food delivery star for the brand, handing out over 4,500 turkeys to the residents of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, where the bourbon is based, just in time for Thanksgiving...

Christmas reputedly has 12 nights, with calling birds, milking maids and leaping lords. Hanukkah has only eight, but during those nights we get straight to the heart of what gets those lords a-leaping. Here’s a whiskey guide to the eight nights. Remember, imbibe responsibly and don’t drink and fry. 1st Candle: Tuesday. This year, Hanukkah starts on a Tuesday night. Odds are you’ve forgotten to buy candles, latkes...

Independent Stave Company has opened its second Kentucky Stave Mill, Benton Wood Products in Marshall County, another investment in Kentucky spurred by the growing American whiskey industry. Independent Stave is the leading producer of oak barrels for whiskey maturation. The stave mill is an intermediate step in barrel production, taking oak logs from the forest and rough-cutting them into staves...

US whiskey has experienced dramatic growth over the last decade, propelled by an unslakable thirst for it from Europe, China and India. But while the spirits themselves – mostly bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye – have gained distinction worldwide, their places of origin remain somewhat mysterious. This has a lot to do with their terroirs, Kentucky and Tennessee – two southern states that are low on the...

Pabst keeps folks buzzed with PBR, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee and its Not Your Father's Hard Root Beer. But now the privately owned company is getting even harder. Pabst, a part owner of the Not Your Father's brand of alcoholic beverages, will soon be distributing Not Your Father's Bourbon. The 86-proof whiskey is currently available in Wisconsin and Illinois and will be in stores nationwide at the beginning of 2018...

As part of my annual series of Holiday Gift Guides, I’m tackling one of my favorite subjects, adult beverages. But unlike most magazine gift lists you will see, based on press releases, I have personally tried every one of the items on this list to give you quality assuredness. Please check out my other themed 2017 gift guides for Food Lovers, for Kitchen &amp; Home and for Cyclists...

How old is too old for bourbon? That is an argument commonly held among drinkers of this American spirit. To date some of the oldest bottlings we’ve seen come from the likes of Diageo and Buffalo Trace. Now Redemption Whiskey is getting in on the game, debuting a 36 year old bourbon alongside a 18 year old rye...

<p>In a Louisville hotel room overlooking the Haymarket whiskey bar, my friend Brian had arranged something special. As I entered the room, I instantly spotted three rows of semi-filled glasses, each row dead-ending at an amber bottle marked with the letters ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z.’ “Oh, hell yes!” I giddily exclaimed. Nothing brings a room of whiskey ‘experts’ back down to earth like a good blind tasting.</p>

<p>Cranberry sauce lovers and haters, unite! We're positive that even if you're not a fan of smothering the fruit on your turkey, you're going to love it in a cocktail. And don't even think about comparing this one to your college drink of choice. With chunks of real fruit, this is the #adult version of a cranberry vodka soda. Pro tip: Don't use the canned cranberry stuff for this one.</p>

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<p>The new Bottled-in-Bond expression honours the 1897 Bottled in Bond act, which put tighter controls on whiskey production and restored drinkers confidence in the product.</p> <p>The new expression from Barton 1792 is a ‘well-aged’ Bourbon coming from barrels all filled during the same season at the distillery...</p>

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We got Larry Rice, who runs two top Louisville bars, to tackle our speed round of questions...

Bottled at 100 proof, Jim Beam Distiller’s Cut features a “medium” body and combines “caramel sweetness with charred oak, enriched with light fruit notes”. After ageing, Bourbon typically goes through a chill filtration process, which involves forcing the liquid through a dense filter to remove fatty acids formed during distillation. Jim Beam Distiller’s Cut removes this step, resulting in a “fuller taste”...

<p>This Saturday, Peerless will open their doors to offer for the first time the tasting and sale of three Peerless Straight Rye Whiskey Single Barrel picks hand selected by Head Distiller, Caleb Kilburn. Since releasing the Rye in the Spring of this year, the distillery has been giving tastings of the two-year-old product along with a sample of Rye new make. With the single barrel picks being offered, it will give...</p>

<p>The world's best-selling bourbon is rolling out a brand new, limited-edition offering.</p>

<p><span style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:roboto,sans-serif; font-size:18px">Looking at the images and names of the bottles of Bourbon labels, I have often contemplated how the brand name was derived.</span></p>

Isaac Bowman Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Port Barrels has been finished in a variety of Port barrels from across Virginia and from Portugal for between three to six months, depending on flavour, before being blended together. The barrels were made using American oak and French limousin oak, with some barrels originating from Minnesota, Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia. Master distiller Brian Prewitt...

<p>After 10 years of covering the booze beat, I saw there was a need for a work that would both offer a snapshot of some of the most compelling drinks from the current cocktail renaissance, and that could serve as an accessible on ramp for those looking to dive in themselves. I had a tremendous amount of resources and research material I’d compiled over the past decade...</p>

A. Smith Bowman Distillery, home to the 2016 and 2017 World’s Best Bourbons is announcing an addition to its permanent line of spirits. In 2016, one of A. Smith Bowman Distillery’s limited edition Abraham Bowman releases was named the World’s Best Bourbon by Whisky Magazine –Abraham Bowman Port Finished Bourbon, which was released in limited quantities. Now, due to popular demand...

Vivian Howard, the star of the award-winning “A Chef’s Life” on PBS, will be in Kentucky in the episode airing next week on KET. She visited Kentucky last year during her nine-week tour for her cookbook, “Deep Run Roots,” with a stop in Louisville with her food truck. The episode will air at 12:30 a.m. Nov. 12 on KET2, at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 18 on KET and at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21...

We know: you would never do something so sacrilegious as cooking with your Pappy. But let’s say the Van Winkle family offered you some bottles for a dinner. Chef Bobby Benjamin got that offer. Benjamin is the head chef and owner of Butchertown Grocery in Louisville, Kentucky. Earlier this year we caught a few minutes with him while he was over a hot plate making beignets with Pappy 12, to talk about cooking...

Jim Beam Vanilla is off to a good start, according to its parent company. Jim Beam, based in Clermont, Ky., began shipping its vanilla-flavored whiskey to retailers in July. Since then, the variant is seeing "excellent initial results," Suntory Holdings Ltd., parent of Jim Beam owner Beam Suntory Inc., said in a financial release. When Jim Beam Vanilla was released, officials with the distillery told me they saw a strong...

Rock Hill Farms is a single barrel Bourbon from Buffalo Trace Distillery. After the success of Blanton’s Single Barrel in the 1980s it was decided that at what is now Buffalo Trace that they would release other expressions of single barrel Bourbons. Rock Hill Farms, Hancock Reserve and Elmer T. Lee were the brands created to extend their portfolio of single barrel products. Rock Hill Farms is a single barrel and bottled at...

For his birthday, actor Matthew McConaughey passed out 4,500 turkeys to people in Kentucky. The 48-year-old livestreamed his visit to the Wild Turkey Distillery in Lawrenceburg for Facebook Live with 250 volunteers to bring free turkeys to people in the town as part of a pre-Thanksgiving Wild Turkey initiative. McConaughey is currently the face of the brand and has partnered with them for TV ads...