American Whiskey reviews

Four Roses single barrel. Warehouse: MWBarrel: 50 2FFresh bottle, this dram has been sitting out for about 45min while I mounted a TV on the wall...Nose: Very floral. Sweet flower petals. Vanilla custard…

If I had paid more attention to the label I might have noticed that this mainly consists of "high-rye bourbon" from Indiana. MGP? Most likely, though the whiskies they are known for are not high-rye…

Old Grandad 114Word on the street was that good ol' JB was considering discontinuing this popular and affordable high proof bourbon. Thankfully that didn't come to fruition. I picked this bottle up in…

Blanton's Straight from the Barrel is a special release by Buffalo Trace, launched in 1984 by master distiller Elmer T. Lee. It was – at the time – the first single barrel bourbon ever. By now that has…

Russell's Reserve refers to Jimmy Russell who has been master distiller at Wild Turkey for over 60 years. He son is also master distiller (the apple and the tree…) there, making Wild Turkey the only…

Six years seems young, but for an American whiskey, that is already quite well matured. This Pikesville is a straight rye whiskey, which means the main ingredient is rye, in this case upholstered with…

Malts of Scotland, the famous German independent bottler, for a while now no longer limits itself to Scotch whisky. They have travelled across the Atlantic and already bottled quite a few casks from…

A place that you would not immediately associate with whiskey is Philadelphia. Yet that is where the Cooper Spirits Company was founded in 2006. They call themselves ‘makers of rare and fine spirits’.…

On the day after Prohibition – this is 1934 – the A Smith Bowman distillery was founded on the Bowman Sunset Hill Farms. We are in Virginia. But in February 1988 the brand was taken over by drinks giant…

We are in Paris, Kentucky, where Andrew and Larissa Buchanan founded the craft distillery Hartfield & Co in 2013. For their bourbon they use 19% rye and 19% malted barley; the remaining 62% is corn. They…