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By April Manning Grade: B- Blood oaths and pacts bring to mind deep, dark secrets, such as a secret society not wishing to be revealed or a secret rendezvous one desires to not be made public. Blood Oath Bourbon developer, John Rempe, has sworn to never tell where he finds the bourbon he uses for a unique approach in creating ...

In the mid- to late-1800s when A.P. Hotaling’s liquor warehouse was the talk of San Francisco, the most celebrated whiskey inhisstock was known as J.H. Cutter, an American whiskey that commanded the premium price of the day – an estimated $5 per bottle. Today, San Francisco’s Hotaling & Co., the importer and distiller formerly known as Anchor Distilling Company, introduces ...

In a sweet play on the distilling industry’s “honey barrels,” those elusive whiskey casks that have been aged to perfection, Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery in Nashville, Tennessee has issued a limited-release Belle Meade Bourbon Honey Cask Finish. It’s their second release of the Craftsman Cask series, the first of which was the Mourvèdre Cask-Finish, released by the Nelson brothers in ...

Redbreast Irish Whiskey, which is produced by Irish Distillers in Midleton Distillery, has launched the Redbreast Dream Cask, which will be available to buy through its online members’ club, The Birdhouse, from World Whisky Day (Saturday May 19th). The release follows requests from consumers and whiskey experts over the past 12 months, and becomes the first in a new series ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- It’s my anecdotal experience, first and second hand, that Michter’s 10 Year Old is the least agreed upon expression among the sort of pricey, annual limited edition releases in American Whiskey. I wouldn’t call it divisive, because nobody actually hates it and I’m not interested in clickbait proclamations. So it’s not a question of everybody ...