Buffalo Trace to meet Bourbon demand in several years August 13, 2020 by Nicola Carruthers
The distillery’s owner, Sazerac, pledged the investment, which will be phased over the course of a decade, in 2018. Buffalo Trace said it is currently in the middle of the investment and has made “great strides” in the past year. According to Kris Comstock, senior marketing director, consumer demand for Buffalo Trace’s whiskeys continues to increase, despite the company’s move to boost production...
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Bourbon is booming. What comes next? August 13, 2020 by Aspen Grender
Between 1919 and 1933, Prohibition forced the closure of distilleries across Kentucky, delivering a death knell for most bourbon businesses and sending countless others underground as bootleg producers (a handful would continue to sell spirits legally “for medicinal purposes only”)...
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Top 10 award-winning American whiskeys August 11, 2020 by Nicola Carruthers
There were a variety of expressions tasted, from flavoured bottlings and Tennessee whiskey to Bourbon and rye. Judges awarded each expression fairly with Silver, Gold or Master medals. To celebrate the brands that scored the top accolades of Gold and Master medals, we have rounded up some of the tasting notes that judges said about each expression...
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The Buffalo Wild Wings Whiskey Might Actually Be A ‘Must Buy’ Bottle August 10, 2020 by Zach Johnston
Finding a special bottle of bourbon has never been easier. There are scores of refined, fascinating expressions on the market these days. We’re talking about “value” bottles, affordable bottles, indie bottles, splurges… we could go on. The category is expanding rapidly in multiple directions...
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Kentucky Bourbon Festival to be held virtually amid COVID-19 pandemic August 8, 2020 by WDRB
Some famous Master Distillers will be taking part in the Kentucky Bourbon Festival this year, but you'll only be able to meet them online. Every year, thousands of people from Kentucky and around the world converge on Bardstown for the festival. But despite attempts to plan an event that was at least partially in person, organizers decided to make the entire festival virtual...
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This Bourbon Was Just Named The Best Value In All Of Whiskey—Get It While You Still Can August 6, 2020 by Brad Japhe
As reported earlier in the week, the Ultimate Spirits Competition just published its annual list of top-scoring entries. The winners are divided across 15 different categories of liquor, everything from baijiu to brandy; all evaluated on a scale of 1-100. But in addition to the esteemed ‘Chairman’s Trophy’—bestowed upon the highest scores in each classification...
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Buffalo Trace Releases Hand-picked Single Barrel Select Bourbon August 5, 2020 by Raj Prashad
For more than 200 years, Buffalo Trace Distillery has crafted and aged award-winning spirits, including its ever-popular bourbon. That’s why the largest sports bar brand in the United States, Buffalo Wild Wings, is releasing a limited amount of hand-picked Single Barrel Select Bourbon at sports bars across Florida, Georgia, Colorado, Nevada and California...
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Woodford Reserve unveils $1,000 Mint Julep program for Derby 146 August 4, 2020 by Erica Bivens
Woodford Reserve unveiled its $1,000 Mint Julep program for Derby 146 on Monday morning, during a virtual call with reporters. It’s been 50 years since Jockey Diane Crump became the first female to ride in The Kentucky Derby. This year’s Woodford Reserve $1,000 Mint Julep Cup program celebrates that milestone...
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Elijah Craig Toasted Barrel Bourbon Review August 3, 2020 by Jim Vorel
Twice-barreled whiskeys have been a popular trend for limited releases in the bourbon and rye world for a while now, to the extent that we’ve tasted lineups of them in the past, but that doesn’t mean every distillery has already jumped on that particular bandwagon...
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Elijah Craig Toasted Barrel Bourbon Review August 3, 2020 by Jim Vorel
Twice-barreled whiskeys have been a popular trend for limited releases in the bourbon and rye world for a while now, to the extent that we’ve tasted lineups of them in the past, but that doesn’t mean every distillery has already jumped on that particular bandwagon...
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The Best Bargains In Bourbon Whiskey July 30, 2020 by Brad Japhe
Would you like to know the biggest secret in all of bourbon? Okay, it’s more of an open secret, really. But let’s just tackle it head-on: great American whiskey should not cost all that much. In fact, time and again, in blind tastings, the ‘cheap’ everyday stuff competes favorably against some of the priciest bottles in the business...
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Virtual Great Buffalo Chase 5K sets record for number of participants July 29, 2020 by State Journal Staff
Runners from all 50 states and seven countries — 1,124, to be exact — participated in Buffalo Trace Distillery’s 19th annual Great Buffalo Chase 5K held virtually over the July 4th weekend. In addition to setting the record for the number of participants, the race also raised more than $21,000 for Frankfort’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post...
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Tasting: Two Barrell Bourbon Private Release Whiskeys July 29, 2020 by Jim Vorel
A few months ago, I tasted a duo of unique rum blends from Barrell, a company far better known for its blends of well-aged bourbon. Those two rums hailed from the company’s “Private Release” collection, which is an ultra-small scale operations wherein the distillery marries sourced rums from all over in unique finishing casks...
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Old Fitzgerald 2020 Spring Bottled In Bond Version Debuts As 9 Year Old July 29, 2020 by Nino Marchetti
The Spring 2020 Edition of the Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey has arrived from Heaven Hill, slightly delayed it seems like. It continues a few years trend now of the popular Kentucky distillery’s twice annual series of a special bottled in bond release in a special old school style decanter, marking the 5th such bottling in this regard...
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New Elijah Craig Bourbon Goes The Toasted Barrel Route July 28, 2020 by Nino Marchetti
The Elijah Craig brand has long been a surefire winner in Kentucky bourbon sales for parent distillery Heaven Hill. It is thus something the powers that be there don’t seem to usually monkey with too much in terms of major product changes, with perhaps the most notable exception to this being last year’s rye whiskey variant debut...
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Are You Holding Your Mint Julep Correctly? Probably Not. July 27, 2020 by Michelle Tchea
Many large, international sporting events have been canceled by the Covid virus. While many non-sports fans would not even finch to this news, it is sad to see the Olympics in Tokyo postponed to next year, the Euro 2020 and also many Tennis Grand Slams being pushed back or canceled...
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These bourbons are all about aging gracefully July 27, 2020 by Charles Passy
The back story: Americans can’t get enough bourbon of late — to the point that some labels have had trouble keeping pace with demand. And these days, there’s particular thirst among bourbon cognoscenti for ones that are aged many more years than the norm...
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We Tasted Four ‘Vintage’ Whiskeys Made By A Wine Sommelier July 24, 2020 by GABRIELLE NICOLE PHARMS
Is there a best age for bourbon? 12 years is often cited as ideal. After that, things get pretty oaky. Fans of Eagle Rare 17 would beg to differ, of course, and super old expressions certainly have their (very rich) aficionados. Unaged whiskeys have made a comeback in recent years, too...
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Calling All Cocktail Aficionados: Elijah Craig Bourbon and Deep Eddy Vodka Now Available in Drinkworks Home Bar System July 22, 2020 by Globe Newswire
Beverage innovation company Drinkworks® and spirits company Heaven Hill Brands today announced a partnership to develop cocktails for use in the Drinkworks Home Bar system. Through the new licensing agreement, consumers will be able to enjoy signature Elijah Craig Bourbon and Deep Eddy Vodka cocktails from Drinkworks Pods, with the initial selection expected to hit the market in late 2020...
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Kentucky’s Bluegrass Distillers Launches Its First Bottled In Bond Bourbon July 22, 2020 by Nino Marchetti
Bluegrass Distillers, located in Lexington, Kentucky, was founded back in 2012, one of the early risers in that state’s craft distillery movement. They’ve already released a number of American whiskeys to market and now, as a general coming of age for an increasing number of craft whiskey makers nationwide, they’ve announced their first bottled in bond offering...
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