By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ One of the problems confronting anyone in the business of using a previously used barrel to age or further age their booze is that of barrel quality. Vertically integrated companies, brewstilleries and other such outfits don’t have this problem, but to focus just on whiskey-makers, most distillers and independent bottlers don’t have access to a ...

By Richard Thomas It’s that time of year when the mercury starts to soar and, especially if you are surrounded by them as we are in the South, you want to throttle the next climate change denier you meet, screaming “it shouldn’t be 93 degrees in May!” One way to handle both kinds of heat is with a cold, boozy ...

The root beer sold at Buffalo Trace Distillery is getting a new name. The Distillery is re-branding its Dr. McGillicuddy’s Root Beer in honor of its famed tour guide Freddie Johnson. Freddie’s Old Fashioned Root Beer will be the exact same root beer it has always been and the price will remain unchanged. What is new is the name and ...

New Riff Distilling today announced that it will share barrels that formerly held New Riff Bourbon with 34 of the state’s top craft brewers on January 16. It marks New Riff Distilling’s first participation in the Kentucky Guild of Brewers’ Kentucky Craft Bash, where a single distillery donates barrels to be given a new life by brewers who will use ...

Mad River Distillers of Warren, Vermont and 14th Star Brewing Company of St. Albans, Vermont have teamed up again for their third annual release of Mad River’s Hopscotch Vermont Single Malt Whiskey. The whiskey was distilled by Mad River from a wash of 14th Star’s Tribute Double IPA, barrel-aged in charred American oak barrels for over two years in Mad ...