This Bourbon Is Only Available For People Who Donate To COVID-19 Relief April 2, 2020 by Emily Price
While a number of distilleries around the country are helping with COVID-19 relief efforts by creating hand sanitizer, one Texas distillery is looking to help with something a little different: bourbon...
Is This $60 Underdog The World’s Best Bourbon Whiskey? April 1, 2020 by Forbes
The results of the World Whiskies Awards 2020 were released last week, and some interesting expressions topped each category. Japan's Hakushu 25-Year-Old was named the World's Best Single Malt, Dewar's took home the award for the World's Best Blended Whisky, and Tamdhu won the award for World's Best Single Cask Single Malt...
These Are the Best American Whiskeys, Bourbons and Ryes of the Year, According to Experts March 31, 2020 by TYLER CHIN
The San Francisco World Spirits Competition was held in early March, where more than 40 judges blind-tasted nearly 3,000 spirits over the course of four days. The judges chose a variety of bottles of brown from all over the world for various whiskey awards, and the SFWSC recently made the full results available. Here are a few of the judges’ favorite American whiskeys...
Revealed: the truth at the bottom of a bourbon shot March 27, 2020 by Barry Keily
The mark of a particular bourbon, it turns out, is not its taste, nor its price-point, nor even the clever design on its label. No. Scientists have now demonstrated that what truly distinguishes a drop of Bulleit from a drop of Knob Creek, or a snifter of Jimmy B from a slurp of Wild T is the mark it leaves on the coaster...
Whiskey makers are bending the rules for barrel-aging, signaling a new wave for bourbon March 29, 2020 by JOHN KELL
Whiskey making has a well-trodden transatlantic cycle. Americans age their bourbon in charred new oak barrels to extract flavor. They then ship those barrels across the ocean, where they enjoy a second life by being used to mature Irish whiskey and Scotch...
8 virtual distillery tours to entertain you during coronavirus lockdown March 27, 2020 by ROBYN BLACK
Already sick of your own four walls? Why not take a virtual busman’s holiday and visit some of the world’s most famous distilleries from your living room? If you’ve got time on your hands at the moment you could see it as an opportunity to get behind the doors of various distilleries around the world and find out what makes them special via a virtual tour...
Sazerac Starts Producing Hand Sanitizer On an Industrial Scale March 27, 2020 by Kyle Swartz
The Sazerac Company, the largest producer of distilled spirits in North America, has joined the ranks of distilling companies now mass-producing hand sanitizer. The company says it has started making hand sanitizer for some of the world’s largest organizations in the healthcare, government, military, retail, distribution, airline, pharmacy and banking industries...
The Best Really Expensive Bottles Of Bourbon Worth Splurging On Right Now March 27, 2020 by ZACH JOHNSTON
With nearly two weeks of self-isolation, quarantine, and now almost full-on lockdowns behind many of us, cabin fever is probably setting in. Hell, even if our president gets his way and opens up shop again by Easter, that’s still two long weeks to go. With so much time on our hands, it’s understandable that we all might go a little stir crazy...
Newest Blood Oath Bourbon Is Influenced By Cognac Barrels March 24, 2020 by Nino Marchetti
The Blood Oath bourbon series from Lux Row Distillers out of Kentucky, as we’ve explored over the years, gives Lux Row head distiller John Rempe the chance to do some experimentation with aged bourbon blending and cask finishing. For this time around he’s combined three selected bourbons, including one that was rested in ex-cognac casks...
Barrell Craft Spirits Batch 021 Named "Best Bourbon" at the 2020 San Francisco World Spirits Competition March 24, 2020
Barrell Craft Spirits (BCS) is delighted to announce that its Barrell Bourbon Batch 021 received Double Gold and was named Best Bourbon and Best Small Batch Bourbon – both overall and within the 6-10 year category – at the 2020 San Francisco World Spirits Competition (SFWSC)...
Whiskey Producers Are Making Hand Sanitizer. Here's How They Organized. March 24, 2020 by Maggie Kimberl
The world needs hand sanitizer — far more than the existing hand sanitizer industry can produce. So the American whiskey industry, along with other alcohol industries like craft breweries, have begun stepping up. They’re hitting pause on making beverages, and have begun making the alcohol-based sanitizers that save lives...
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12 Great Bottles of Bourbon, Rye, and Scotch to Buy Online Right Now March 23, 2020 by Nicholas McClelland
Want to buy some bottles of whiskey to help you during the coronavirus crisis? We get it. While social distancing makes it a bit difficult to head to your local liquor store, ordering whiskey online is still possible...
15 bourbons that should be on your radar, according to 3 bourbon experts March 22, 2020 by Gillian Brassil & Laura Casado
When it comes to today’s most innovative whiskey distilleries, US bourbon producers are leading the pack. From its origins in Kentucky, bourbon production has expanded to other states, where the drink can range in flavor profiles from honeysuckle and mint to toffee and warm oak...
The 5 Best Sites for Fast Whiskey, Wine and Beer Delivery March 22, 2020 by WILL PRICE
Just because you’re stuck at home doesn’t mean you have to deprive yourself of regular vices. With the rise of booze delivery services, those services’ ability to serve more parts of the U.S. has grown. Plus, many of your local liquor stores could use the help. Here are five companies that can get whiskey, wine, beer and whatever other booze you want delivered, same-day...
Inside the Dying World of Facebook’s Whiskey Black Markets, the Best Place to Buy (and Sell) Rare Bourbon March 20, 2020 by CHRIS WRIGHT
There exists, on Facebook, a black market for expensive and rare whiskeys. It’s been around a while, but I learned about it a few months back, when I started hunting Pappy Van Winkle, one of the rarest bottles of bourbon out there, and someone told me about a group where bottles were bought and sold like hotcakes. I didn’t join the group until later, but now I wish I had right away. It would have helped find Pappy Van Winkle...
You Don’t Know Squat About Buffalo Trace’s Weirdest Bourbon, and This Whiskey Site Proves It March 17, 2020 by Will Price
Buffalo Trace Distillery’s Blanton’s Bourbon made news recently, announcing its Gold Edition, historically an international market exclusive, is coming to the US this summer. But Gold Edition is only the tip of the Blanton’s iceberg; for the rest, go to Warehouse H, a new website developed by a rabid Blanton’s collector...
The Best Irish Whiskeys, According to Bourbon Producers March 17, 2020 by KIRK MILLER
If you’re an American who only finds themselves drinking Irish whiskey on March 17th, you’re missing out. Don’t take our word for it — take the word of America’s whiskey and bourbon producers...
The Bourbon Distilleries Road Show: Colorado
Welcome to the first Bourbon Distilleries Road Show!
This week we’re visiting some of the wonderful bourbon distilleries in Colorado to see what they have to offer, even to the once-hardcore “Kentucky-only” bourbon aficionado.
New Collectible 18 Year Old Colonel E.H. Taylor Bourbon On The Way? March 13, 2020 by Nino Marchetti
The Colonel E.H. Taylor bourbon line, produced by Buffalo Trace, has among the bottlings that have come from it over the years some extremely collectible limited edition releases that typically sell out rather fast at retail and can command high dollars on the secondary market...
First Booker’s Bourbon 2020 Batch Drops In At 126.4 Proof March 9, 2020 by Nino Marchetti
The annual high octane Booker’s Bourbon Batch Collection is an annual, multi-bottle exercise by Beam Suntory in higher proof American whiskey. These expressions regularly clock in in the 120 and 130 proof ranges, and for 2020 the first bottling out the gate does not disappoint in this regard...
