By Kurt Maitland Last year, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sukhinder Singh, the co-owner and founder of online retailer The Whisky Exchange, prior to the start of the 2019 Whisky Show. Briefly, Sukhinder is quite the force in the whisky industry. He’s been a collector since the late 1980s, and the bottles in his personal collection that are hard ...

By Richard Thomas Few brands have divided the bourbon enthusiast community quite like Michter’s, and a case study is the reaction to their annual limited edition expression, Michter’s 10 Year Old Single Barrel Bourbon. On the one hand are the growing ranks of people who will tell you Michter’s has never steered them wrong, and this well-crafted and middle-aged single ...

Comparing The Original, Kentucky-Only 6 Year Old Heaven Hill Bonded Bourbon To The New, 7 Year Old National Version By Richard Thomas When Heaven Hill announced it would discontinue its Kentucky-only, 6 Year Old Bottled in Bond (BiB) Bourbon in the summer of 2018, the howls were heard far outside the Bluegrass. The expression, esteemed as much for its modest ...

A subject that often arises in conversations with enthusiasts, colleagues, industry professionals and bar folks is the end of the world whiskey boomtimes. Changing tastes tend to be a generational matter, and that would point to a 1970s crash coming only when not just the Zoomers, but the generation following them become the primary drinks consumers in the U.S. The ...

Whisky And Beer Are More Intertwined Than Ever By Richard Thomas Whisky (including Irish Whiskey and American Malt Whiskey) have a lot in common because they share similar roots. In the early stages of production, both a distillery and a brewery produce a malted barley wort. I can’t say a beer wort and a whisky wort are indistinguishable, but I ...