American Whiskey reviews

On January 13, 2015 Beam Suntory announced Jim Beam 'Pre-Prohibition Syle' Green Label Rye I was very very excited to learn that Beam/Suntory is replacing Jim Beam Yellow Label Rye, 40% abv, with a 45%…

Welcome to the continuing saga whereby I try various different Single Barrels of Jack Daniel's. Yeah, yeah I know, y'all hate Jack Daniels but I don't care, for me this is fun. So suck it. Here we have…

Rittenhouse Straight Rye Whiskey is produced by Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., a family-owned company headquartered in Bardstown, Kentucky. The distillery itself, called the Heaven Hill Bernheim dist…

2014's George T. Stagg was distilled in spring 1998 and matured for 16 years and 4 months in 161 barrels until being bottled in, of course, fall 2014. It's worth mentioning (as I didn't before) as the…

Legs: Noticeably thinner than a 40% whisky and very slow.Nose: Very sweet, some varnish in the background, treacle, butterscotch, mango, vanilla. With some air and time cloves start to make a noticeable…

After reviewing two unaged grain spirits (shudder), I had to step up my game a little. Maybe I stepped it up a bit too much...A couple of months ago, our provincial liquor monopoly / retailer / dictator…

For the first time in ages, Maggie and I (and her friend) took advantage of snowmaggeddon and went tobogganing! She got a GT Snowracer for Christmas and she plowed down those hills like a demon. (Her…