Westland was only founded in 2010 in Seattle, Washington, on the west coast of the country (hence the name). They make only single malt and even use Belgian yeast. Their core range exists of the American…

A Tennessee has all the technical traits to be called a bourbon. The difference is the fact that it undergoes one extra step: filtering through the charcoal of the sugar maple tree. Jack Daniel’s is the…

Old Potrero is a single malt from San Fransisco, distilled and matured by the Anchor Distilling Company (although recently renamed Hotaling & Co, after Anchor Brewing Company was sold from the group and…

While Rittenhouse is actutally a rye style whiskey from Pennsylvania (Philadelphia to be precise), it is distilled at Heaven Hill, that took over the brand long ago. The mashbill is 51% rye, 37% corn and…

Knob Creek is a brand that Jim Beam produces in their Clermont, Kentucky, distillery. It is a so-called small batch bourbon that aims for the higher segment. Initially this was put out on the market as…

It has been almost 4 years since I last tried this one. I wonder if this batch will be as smooth as the previous one. Smooth Ambler… it sure sounds good. This craft distiller from West Virginia has only…

Our friends from Valinch & Mallet – Italian bottlers that I’ve come to know quite well, both personally and their whisky releases – were able to put their hands on a cask from Heaven Hill from 2009. It…

Legend has it that Elijah Craig is the ‘inventor’ of bourbon. Historical proof says otherwise, but that does not hold the bourbon industry back – with Heaven Hill in the lead – to keep this legend alive…

Single Barrels are very common nowadays. But it was Colonel Albert B Blanton of the Buffalo Trace Distillery that first released a single barrel bourbon less than a century ago. The marketing fellows…

The story of Maker’s Mark is one to read up on. I can recommend the book ‘Bourbon’ by Fred Minnick from 2016. The distillery only started producing in 1954 and has always gone against the grain and…