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Mackmyra has a proud history of challenging traditional norms and also of having a desire to highlight Swedish nature, flavors and craftsmanship outside the country’s borders. In line with this, the company now presents this year’s autumn edition Jaktlycka (Happy Hunting), which is a whisky inspired by our ancient forests and its tasty treasures. Jaktlycka is a limited single malt ...

For Blanton’s fans, Buffalo Trace Distillery is making Blanton’s Straight From The Barrel available in the United States this fall.  This announcement follows Buffalo Trace Distillery announcing earlier this year that Blanton’s Gold Edition will be available annually in the United States, starting in summer 2020. Like Blanton’s Gold Edition, Straight From The Barrel will be limited, and released once ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- The Pinhook brand name represents whiskeys from at least the warehouse of the Castle & Key Distillery, which in turn is the renovated and revived Old Taylor Distillery, a neo-Gothic glory that was formerly the showpiece of the famous Colonel E.H. Taylor (whose name now graces a Buffalo Trace-brand). The company hired Marianne Eaves (then ...

By Douglas Fraser Grade: C+ The Kooper Family Distillery is 100% family owned and operated, by Troy and Michelle Kooper, who have spent years making and blending whiskey in Ledbetter, Texas. Their blends can be found predominantly in the Lone Star State, but aren’t unknown elsewhere. Like many a small whiskey company, they started by blending sourced distillates before making ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B The first batch of Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond of the year, the Spring Batch, didn’t reach me until the very last days of spring. By then I was on the cusp of my prized summer custody of my son, which this year entailed several weeks of full-time Daddy Daycare. That consequently throttled down on ...