American Whiskey reviews

This is a new release, sourced I suspect from George Dickel distillery (based on the nose and palate of the whiskey, not from any actual info I'm privy to). Nathan "Nearest" Green was a former slave of…

This single barrel is 19-04135, from rick R-16 and was bottled on June 18 2019.The colour is a dark amber. On the nose we have massive layers of oak, featuring dark chocolate, nougat and cinnamon, as…

This new bottling of Jack Daniel's goes back to the design of the early 1900s, with a green label and lots of old-tyme fonts. The liquid, though upped to 43% from the standard 40%, isn't meant to repl…

Rock Hill Farms – named after a famous piece of farmland along the Kentucky River – is produced at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. They use Mash Bill #2, for what it’s worth. I can…

I have not tried that many Jim Beam – I hear little good about it and my own experience corroborates this – but a single barrel? That cannot be bad, can it? Otherwise the powers that be surely would not…

This Double Oak version from Jim Beam was launched in 2016. As the name suggests it is matured in not one, but two barrels, freshly charred.The nose is honeysweet on vanilla sugar, caramel, hint of fruit…

Bulleit (say, ‘bullet’, like the ammunition) was marketed between 1830 and 1860 by Augustus Bulleit, but when the creator died, the brand died with him. It was revived by his great-great-grandson Tom…

As some of you may know concerning the current state of bourbon in the US, some of these Buffalo Trace offerings have become insanely hard to get and ridiculously inflated in price in the last few years…

Lots one could say about this whiskey but I'll settle for saying that it has had the critics drooling since its release and, so it would seem, also the 'layperson'. I've liked all previous Heaven Hill…

This is the 2019 release of the Belle Meade Black Belle that I have religiously stood in line for every year. This bourbon is aged in barrels that previosly held Blackstone Brewery's imperial stout,…