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By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Another batch of Barrell Bourbon has arrived. Batch 015 is officially a 9 1/2 year old, that being the youngest whiskey used, but some 10 year and 11 year old whiskey is in there too. The stock involved comes from at least two different distilleries, since it was distilled in Tennessee and Kentucky. This batch ...

When Buffalo Trace offered their devoted fan following the opportunity to remotely “craft their perfect bourbon,” they overwhelmingly voted that wheated bourbon is king! Taking note, Buffalo Trace is responding by giving them more of what they want. In November 2015, Buffalo Trace Distillery launched its “Craft Your Perfect Bourbon” website, in a lighthearted attempt to teach people about bourbon. ...

By Kurt Maitland Rating: B- The island of Jura sits next-door to a much more famous member of the Hebrides, Islay. Like that island known for its peaty whisky, Jura is home to its own whisky distillery, and some might know it as the island where George Orwell wrote the novel, 1984. The fact that it has a larger population ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Benrinnes is one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland, with whisky first being made at the Aberlour area site in 1826, just a few years after the Crown began issuing licenses for whisky production. That site was washed away in a flood and refounded in 1835 as Lyne of Ruthrie, which went bankrupt, came into ...

By Richard Thomas Canadian Whisky occupies an odd place with world drinkers. The whisky from the Great White North is one of the five classic national whisky styles, along with Irish, Scottish, Japanese and American. Canadians have their own unique methods and big Canadian brands have an international presence. Yet at the same time, Canadian Whisky is perhaps the least ...