American Whiskey reviews

I happen to have three bourbons on hand, all bottled in bond, begging to be reviewed. I can't remember if I've written about a bottled-in-bond bourbon before, so forgive me if I'm repeating what that…

I had the fortunate opportunity to try both the limited 18yr rye and 36yr old bourbon releases from Redemption. After 36 years only 6% of the original contents remained, just enough to fill 18 bottles…

Nose: a sweet, heady aroma. Baked goods, apple pie with cinnamon. Deeper down, oak char.Taste: big, full-bodied flavour starting with apple skin, moving into sweet spices and then the oak char, before…

Released June 2017. Bottle #251. Hand-filled at the distillery. 375ml bottle. Cask Strength. Spirit made from Baird's Heavily Peated Distiller's Malt. Aged for 4 years in a first-fill ex-Buffalo Trace…

Stagg Jr. Fall 2017 ReleaseBottle: L1727I was lucky enough to grab a bottle of this. The store was allocated four bottles this year and Sal the manager was kind enough to offer me one. Bottle is 90% full…

Elijah Craig small batch. They were having a sale today I picked this up for 29.99 compared to the usual 36.99. ECSB as I will call it is aged 8-12 years in #3 charred barrels. If I'm not mistaken it is…

This was possibly the first bourbon I had that really sold me to it as a quality product worth investigating further - and I've barely scratched the surface to be fair. From what I gather this is a…

I am not much of a fan of old No.7 but I can see the appeal of it, it has indeed become a very powerful American Icon, pretty much synonymous with rock & roll, motorcycles and the assorted trappings of…

The conventional wisdom is that spice in American whiskey comes from the rye. Wheat, I learned from drinking Van Winkle wheated bourbons, ages more elegantly and softens a whiskey out over many years.…

I wish I could tell you the batch number and the bottle number, but somehow, the numbers on the bottle were removed. You can actually do that by accident with your finger nail. NOSE: golden raisins,…