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Best Bourbons For Under $25

Elijah Craigh 12 YO

By Richard Thomas One of the telling virtues of bourbon is how you can get really good quality for a reasonable price. This sometimes holds true outside the United States, even after import duties have taken their bite. Bourbon is definitely a spirit where “cheap” doesn’t necessarily mean “inferior.” Even among bourbon enthusiasts, the go-to choices for everyday drinking often ...

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Craft Distilling Sitting On A Ticking Timebomb?

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The Silver Trail Fire Raises Questions Of Equipment And Training Quality By Richard Thomas While at Scotland’s Spirit of Speyside whisky festival earlier this month, I had the opportunity to visit Strathisla, billed as Scotland’s oldest distillery. It certainly looked the part, roughly the same size as some of America’s bigger craft distilleries and with an appearance comparable to a ...

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Bad Whiskey Writing, Piled Higher And Deeper

By Richard Thomas Excoriable whiskey writing piles up fairly quickly in The Whiskey Reviewer’s files, and for our sixth installment of this series on subpar coverage the first example is also a very recent one: the Wall Street Journal’s article from last Tuesday about the barrel shortage. The story itself wasn’t bad on a factual level, however. The problem that it’s ...

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