By Richard Thomas If you find yourself attending one of the growing series of evening entertainment events taking place at Kentucky’s Bourbon distilleries, you might look up at the musicians on stage and wonder if they too are Bourbon drinkers. It’s a fair question, and one I put to Scott Southworth. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest and now based in ...
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Traverse City Whiskey Company Bourbon Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ A month ago the summer custody of my son had ended, I was at the airport seeing him off. As I was checking him in, there was a college student sitting at the next set of counters over, busy reorganizing her luggage. Her hat read “Traverse City, Michigan.” This had narrowly missed becoming my first ...
Read More »Castle Brands Ups Investment in Kentucky Artisan
Castle Brands, owner of Jefferson’s Bourbon and Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey, announced on Monday that it had purchased an additional 5% of Copperhead Distillery Company, which owns and operates the Kentucky Artisan Distillery. Kentucky Artisan Distillery currently has three warehouses already in use for storing Jefferson’s bourbons, and also provides distilling using special mash-bills made from locally grown grains for ...
Read More »Garrison Brothers Cowboy Bourbon Review (2017)
By Father John Rayls Rating: A+ I’m reluctant to give an A+ out, because that grade is the top of the scale and I hate to think a whiskey cannot get any better. But I don’t feel that way about Garrison Brothers Cowboy Bourbon this year. To my way of thinking, it is just that good and I can’t see ...
Read More »Craft Spirits Federal Tax Reduction Reaches 50 Senate Co-Sponsors
S. 236, the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act, re-introduced earlier this year by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MN), has reached a landmark 50 co-sponsors in the Senate, with 28 Democrats, 21 Republicans and one Independent, representing a clear, bipartisan groundswell of support for tax parity. H.R. 747, the companion bill introduced by Rep. Erik ...
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