Updated February 17, 2021 By Richard Thomas Average Rating: B If one steps back and take a look, it almost seems as if Fred Noe is determined to toss a little egg into the faces of all the pundits who told scary stories about the bourbon shortage, and told their readers to get used to a world of ever younger ...

By Elizabeth Emmons Rating: B+ Earlier this year, I wrote a review of Starward’s Solera, which sparked a newfound interest for me in this Australian distiller. As I have a penchant for cask strength, and I was pleasantly surprised with my recent foray into this brand from down under, there was little risk in trying the Starward Astor Barrell release, ...

By April Manning Rating: C+ Not all chickens are cocks, but all cocks are chickens… When you are over 160 years old and known as The Famous Old Brand, you need a worthy back story… and this one has several.  In 1856 James A. Miller set off on the journey of producing a high-quality whiskey in Paris, Kentucky, which, as ...

By Andrew Graham Grade: B+ Let’s start off by getting technical. Scotch-makers must use 100% malted barley in their mash bill. U.S. regulations, by contrast, permit a spirit that’s just 51% malted barley to be labeled as malt whiskey. So this American malt might taste more like a bourbon, that American malt might taste more like a rye, and it ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ One pretty consistent pleasure of writing The Whiskey Reviewer is sitting down with the latest offerings from Barrell Craft Spirits. Batch 24 was based primarily on high rye bourbon stocks in consignments aged 9, 10 and 13 years old; this was rounded out with a 15 year old high rye bourbon of different sourcing. At ...