By Richard Thomas Rating: C- Of Bird Dog’s flavored whiskey line, their blackberry whiskey is the one that has probably received the most attention and is the best known. Ostensibly, Bird Dog products are supposed to be sweet, flavorful, and smooth enough to drink on their own. Sometimes flavored whiskeys, such as Bird Dog’s own peach whiskey, are the sort ...
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Glen Thunder Corn Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ Back when premium vodka was all the rage, I never quite got into it. Rooted as I was in the mother’s milk of Kentucky bourbon, my interest in “clear stuff” quickly shifted from trendy vodka to decidedly untrendy moonshine and corn whiskey. Given that this was years before the hipsters discovered moonshine, I really do ...
Read More »Jim Beam Devil’s Cut Bourbon Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: C Billed as a sinister, stronger choice in bourbon, Jim Beam’s Devil’s Cut was indeed a cutting edge whiskey, albeit not for the reasons advertised. Instead, Devil’s Cut was the first mass market bourbon release to base itself firmly on the process of barrel rinsing. When a whiskey barrel is emptied, some of the liquid remains ...
Read More »Bird Dog Peach Flavored Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: C Just like vodka before it, whiskey is experiencing a boomtime-driven expansion into the area of flavored liquor. These days it seems every big distillery is either getting into secondary maturation, or barrel finishing, or producing flavored whiskey. Honey whiskey has been getting much of the attention lately, both in the U.S. and the U.K., but ...
Read More »Full Sail Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout Review (2013)
By Richard Thomas Rating: A- It’s a good time to be drinking in America, with decades-long interest in craft beers, fine wines, and good spirits spurring small, high-end producers across the country. The days when your choices were “Mass Market Product A,” “Mass Market Product B,” and “Subpar Product #1” are long gone. One way in which these parallel developments ...
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