Van Winkle Bourbon Annual Release Coming Soon October 11, 2019 by Breaking Bourbon
FRANKFORT, FRANKLIN COUNTY, KY (Oct. 10, 2019) – This is the favorite time of the year for bourbon fans, the annual release of the Van Winkle Bourbons. Like previous years, yields from the barrels are low due to evaporation during the long aging cycle...
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Bartenders Name The Best High Rye Bourbons For Fall 2019 October 9, 2019 by Christopher Osburn
Fall in much of the country is chilly, cool, damp, and downright depressing. It’s the kind of weather when we’d all rather find a cozy chair, tuck in with a warm blanket...
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Alice In Chains Now Has Its Own Bourbon To Share With Fans October 8, 2019 by Nino Marchetti
Metallica. Scorpions. Slipknot. These three major bands all have one thing in common with regards to whiskey these days – they’ve teamed with distillers in recent times to offer up brown spirits associated with their brand. It is seen as a way ...
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How To Score A Free Bourbon And Burger Pairing This Week October 7, 2019 by Brad Japhe
Last March Beam Suntory launched Legent, a super-premium bourbon merging American whiskey-making traditions with the expertise of Japanese blending. The liquid marked a new approach to Kentucky’s classic liquid. This autumn the brand is looking to reconfigure another classic: the hamburger...
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11 Things You Should Know About Heaven Hill Distillery October 4, 2019 by Cat Wolinski
Heaven Hill Distillery, founded by the Shapira family in Bardstown, Ky., in 1935, is the largest family-owned and operated distillery in the U.S. It’s also the second-largest bourbon distillery in the world, and one of the country’s largest spirits suppliers. Ready for a taste of whiskey history? Here are 11 more things you should know about Heaven Hill Distillery...
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Bardstown Bourbon Company Opens Doors to New Visitor Center October 3, 2019 by Katelyn Best
Bardstown Bourbon Company, the Kentucky distillery known for its collaborations with brands like Jefferson’s, High West, and Hirsch, has announced the opening of its Visitors Center Experience in Bardstown, an attraction “designed to complement locals, tourists, bourbon enthusiasts and novices alike,”...
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COUNTDOWN: Louisville's best bourbon bars (GALLERY) October 2, 2019 by Haley Cawthon
It's been a busy summer for bourbon. The season started off with Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. releasing its inaugural bourbon, followed by the news of a massive fire at a Jim Beam warehouse. Just last month, we reported that a rickhouse facility is coming to Louisville's East End...
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Eight Exceptional Bourbon Values That You Have Probably Never Heard Of October 1, 2019 by Joseph Micallef
It’s estimated that there are over 3,500 historic brands of bourbon in the United States. Roughly 1,000 are currently active. That includes retailer specific brands. Notwithstanding the number of bourbon brands, however, and the veritable explosion in craft producers...
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Review: 1792 Bourbon 12 Years Old October 1, 2019 by DrinkedIn
Up next in the rapidly expanding 1792 collection is another spin on 1792 Small Batch Bourbon: 1792 12 Years Old (aka 1792 Aged Twelve Years). The 12 year old is Kentucky straight bourbon that uses the same rye-heavy recipe as the flagship 1792 Small Batch Bourbon...
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That Old Story About Pappy, Maker’s Mark And Old Fitzgerald September 29, 2019 by Chuck Cowdery
Many years ago, before I even started to write about bourbon, when I lived in Louisville, I had a friend who had worked in the marketing department at Old Fitzgerald (AKA Stitzel-Weller) when it was still an independent distillery owned by the Van Winkle family...
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CROWD SOURCED BOURBON FROM BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY NAMED BEST IN SHOW September 29, 2019 by DrinkedIn
Buffalo Trace Distillery bourbon brand, W.L. Weller CYPB (Craft Your Perfect Bourbon) won “Best Of Show” at the 2019 North American Bourbon & Whiskey Competition (N.A.B.W.C.). W.L. Weller CYPB is a wheated recipe bourbon and is the result of thousands of whiskey drinkers crafting their perfect bourbon at www.yourperfectbourbon.com...
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KNOB CREEK LAUNCHES NEW LIMITED EDITION 'QUARTER OAK' BOURBON September 27, 2019 by Maxim Staff
Knob Creek has unveiled a new limited edition bourbon in its Quarter Oak series that fans of the brand will want to snap up while it's still around. The limited-supply release uses a secondary finishing approach as an ode to founding distiller Booker Noe, who was famously dedicated to crafting bourbon with the fullest and boldest flavors, characteristic of pre-Prohibition style...
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Vampire Diaries' Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley Are Reuniting to Create a Bourbon September 27, 2019 by Cydney Contreras
Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder are giving fans something to sink their teeth into. Well, technically, it's something to sip on, because these two are creating their own bourbon. According to Ian, he and Paul are in the beginning stages of launching the liquor company...
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JIM BEAM RELEASES $125 'SUPER PREMIUM' BOURBON BLEND September 26, 2019 by Maxim Staff
Jim Beam's newest "super premium" bourbon blend is especially close to eighth-generation distiller Freddie Noe's heart. Little Book Chapter 3: The Road Home is the third expression in the American whiskey behemoth's annually released Little Book line of small-batch blends, following 2017's "The Easy" and 2018's "Noe Simple Task."...
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'The Walking Dead': the whiskey. Of course, bourbon tie-in to zombie series has a bite September 25, 2019 by Mike Snider
The latest brand to take a shot at the burgeoning whiskey market: The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, to be released in October, is a 94 proof whiskey with a suggested price of $34.99 for a 750-milliliter bottle. A shot of the new whiskey may help July's end of the popular "The Walking Dead" comic book series go down a little easier. The comic, written by Robert Kirkman...
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The Best Single Barrel Bourbons To Chase Down Right Now September 24, 2019 by Zach Johnston
There’s a stark, simple beauty to a bottle of any single barrel spirit… but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be “great.” The best single barrel bourbons or whiskeys or rums reflect one barrel’s ability to age and mellow a spirit into something more than its individual parts...
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A ‘bourbon monster’ is coming from Kentucky Owl. Good luck finding it. September 24, 2019 by Janet Patton
Kentucky Owl, a cult favorite bourbon, on Monday announced its latest release: Bourbon Batch No. 9. The new launch, unfortunately, also is limited: Only 10,314 bottles will be for sale next month, at a suggested retail price of about $300. For this version, master blender Dixon Dedman blended four different distillates from four different mash bills, some as much as 15 years old...
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Our Staff Raves About Their Favorite Bourbons For Fall 2019 September 23, 2019 by Zach Johnston
The quest for a great bourbon is an unending journey. There are well over 1,500 craft distilleries operating around America with 100 each in Washington, New York, and California. And just wait until you get to Kentucky and Tennessee — America’s de facto distillery home bases...
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2019 Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Details Revealed September 18, 2019 by Nino Marchetti
As we descend further into the fall 2019 higher end American whiskey shopping cycle, certainly one of the highlights each year is the release of Buffalo Trace’s Antique Collection. Details on it have just been put forth by the popular Kentucky distillery...
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5 new bourbons to drown your football sorrows with September 20, 2019 by Coleman Bently
So you’re a Dolphins fan. Or maybe you pull for the Jets or Bengals. Perhaps you’re Florida State alum, a Tennessee Vol, or a once-mighty Trojan. Maybe your fantasy team is just a dumpster fire on top of a graveyard. But whatever the source of your football blues, there’s no balm quite like a great bourbon...
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