By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Although Colorado’s Stranahan’s Distillery was one of the trailblazers of the craft whiskey movement, not just in that state but in the U.S. as a whole, one of the ironies is that few actually followed in their path. Whereas most micro-distilleries throw themselves into a whole range of spirits—sourced and in-house; white and brown—Stranahan’s focused ...
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Texas’s Ranger Creek Gets Out Full-On .36 Barrel Bourbon
When Ranger Creek started making bourbon over 6 years ago, their vision was to create a one-of-a-kind barrel experiment. With the year-round release of their .36 Texas Straight Bourbon, their never-before-seen experiment has finally come to fruition. .36 Texas Straight Bourbon is Ranger Creek’s everyday straight bourbon. It was aged for a minimum of two years with a suggested retail ...
Read More »Oban 14 Year Old Scotch Review
Updated May 2, 2022 By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Oban 14 Year Old is part of the Classic Malts collection of Diageo, and it’s a fair billing. It’s one of those single malt expressions that most Scotch fans are familiar with, and it sells well. The 14 Year Old expression is even a fairly old one, having been introduced in ...
Read More »High Proof Bourbons For Summer
When The Mercury Goes Up, Try These Six Ballsy Bourbons On Ice By Richard Thomas My tastes in whisk(e)y change with the seasons, and one of the things I reach for once the summer heat well and truly sets in is high proof or cask strength Bourbon. This inclination to go with big, bold, strong Bourbon from about mid-June to ...
Read More »Painted Stave Double TroubleD Whiskey Review
By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ Delaware’s Painted Stave Distilling and Fordham & Dominion Brewing Co. have gotten into the thing, not new but not altogether well-established either, in producing a whiskey distilled from beer, in this case an Imperial IPA. The result is Double TroubleD, initially released in 2015. My particular bottle came from the October 2016 release, bottle ...
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