By Adam Irvine Rating: B The last time a Glen Grant official bottling passed my lips was the 10 year old, and it was combined with one of the most surreal experiences I’ve had in my whisky drinking career; walking through the distillery’s still house and bottling plant, surrounded by ladies in dresses and heels and men in kilts and ...

By Kurt Maitland Rating: B- AnCnoc, meaning “the hill,” is a single malt produced by The Knockdhu distillery, a whisky distillery in Knock, Banffshire that is currently part of the Inver House Distillers Limited stable (who also owns Balblair and Old Pulteney). The distillery shouldn’t be confused with Knockando, and the name “AnCnoc” was chosen, at least in part, to ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B After looking at Jameson Bold and Lively, this is the third and last installment from the Jameson Deconstructed series of travel retail whiskeys, Jameson Round. Each of these expressions is meant to “deconstruct” the standard Jameson by playing up a certain aspect of it. In the case of Round, that aspect is the influence of ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- The bread and butter of the Casey Jones Distillery is a 50/50 corn and sugar moonshine, made in the wagon bed still that is traditional to the Western Kentucky region. Unlike most legal moonshines, however, Casey’s Barrel Cut has spent some time maturing in wood. The distillery puts it in a full-sized, 53 gallon ASB, ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Yellow Rose Distilling started out a few years back by following the already tried and true path of the craft whiskeymaker: put out some product at once to build your brand while you get your micro-distillery up and running and your in-house products mature. In the case of Yellow Rose, that meant sourcing certain products, ...