American Whiskey reviews

Old Ezra is a product marketed by Lux Row Distillers (who do not distill) in Bardstown Kentucky. The details about where they get their distillate is best explained in @Victor’s review here:https://www…

It was former master distiller Elmer T Lee – who passed away in 2013 – who launched the Straight from the Barrel series in 1984, a year before his retirement. The casks for the series matured in the…

The Cascade Hollow Distillery – producer of the George Dickel bourbon – is the only other distillery (Jack Daniel’s being the first) that uses the so-called Lincoln County Process. This is the filtering…

Jim Beam is still one of the best-selling bourbons in the States and their White Label heads the statistics in that regard. Thanks to my buddy Timon I could try a bottle from the 1990s. Let’s not forget…

The label says ‘prohibition era recipe’, in which they refer to the original Templeton Rye that was distilled in Iowa at the beginning of the previous century and was very popular in the speakeasies in…

This Straight American Whiskey is released by the famous metal band Metallica. It was composed by Dave Pickerell (who passed away in November 2018) who was the Master Distiller at Maker’s Mark for many…

Crooked Fox does not have a distillery, but selects cask from all over the US and brings those to their HQ in Texas. Crooked Fox is ‘women owned’, by the way. This bourbon is then blended there and since…

Happy 4th of July! That calls for an American drink, right? Let’s have a Woodford Reserve. The actual name of the distillery is Labrot & Graham, which can still be found on the label. This bourbon sets…

I have drank quite a bit of Jack over the last few years, mainly the Master Distiller editions, but also the rye and the 45% single barrel versions. It has a sweet, rather perfumed style that, when I'm…

This one is Barrel No. 19-03648 from Rick No. R-11, bottled June 5 2019.The colour is a dark reddish amber, maybe just a thin hair darker than the last one. On the nose there is a lot of woodsmoke, cigar…