By Randall Borkus Rating: B The Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee is known for its signature whiskey, filtered through sugar maple charcoal which creates the distinctive flavor that folks tend to love or hate, with few in between. The reality is that this brand is one of the top-selling American Whiskey on the market. Participating in the modern whiskey ...

Updated August 26, 2020 By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Castle & Key Distillery is known for being the revival of the neo-Gothic castle that was the Old Taylor plant, as well as being the former home of Master Distiller Marianne Eaves, Kentucky’s first woman to hold that title and something of a prodigy. However, before the distillery actually went into ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Ever since Balcones broke certain barriers in 2009 by making a corn whiskey with blue corn, both accelerating the trend for small distillers to reach for novel grains and asserting a Tex-Mex whiskey style for the first time, I’ve been waiting for some serious work to be done in making whiskeys with heirloom Mexican corn. ...

By Douglas Fraser Grade: B+ Spirit Works is a craft distillery located in Sonoma County, California. Owners Timo and Ashby are a husband and wife team, are known for producing a unique Sloe Gin. They later expanded to make vodka and whiskey. The all-female distilling team at Spirit Works produces their spirits with local organic grains that are milled, fermented, ...

By Emily Mullis Rating: B Honoring a time when the now well-known whiskey distilleries were just getting started, Lux Row Distillers has crafted a unique blend of whiskeys inspired by (and are thus named after) Daviess Country Distilling Company. Dating all the way back to 1874, long before the sour days of prohibition, Daviess Country laid down a foundation for ...