Don’t Believe The Haters, Because Craft Whiskey Hasn’t Sucked For A Long Time By Richard Thomas The meme “craft whiskey sucks” has been around for a decade now, and like most memes, it just plain refuses to die. Nevermind that much has changed since 2010 and there were plenty of examples of fine craft whiskey even back in the day ...

The Bourbon Shortage Was Never Real, And Here Is Why By Richard Thomas Just a few years ago, the word in bourbon circles was you’d better horde the good stuff now, because we were in the midst of a bourbon shortage. A scenario where increased demand would drain even the gigantic lake of bourbon sitting in Kentucky rickhouses was postulated ...

By Richard Thomas As an apostle to the “find what you like and drink that however you want it” school of whisk(e)y enthusiasm, I have little use for snobbery. In fact, if I call someone a snob of anything, I’m de facto labeling that person as a hater, not a lover; snobbery is the act of defining your love for ...

By Mario Petkovski The good old question is still popular among whiskey consumers. Obviously, everyone wants to drink the best whiskey for their money, but not all of us are whiskey experts, and sometimes it is hard to tell which one has better quality. Out of all spirits, whiskey seems to have the most enthusiastic and passionate drinkers. There are ...

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 ...