By Randall H. Borkus Rating A- I recently had the good fortune to spend time at Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont Kentucky with some special people, where we met with Freddie Noe and were introduced to an exciting 2019 release of “Little Book Chapter 3: The Road Home” (Recipe 051). Little Book Chapter 3 is the first Kentucky Straight Bourbon ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: A- Henry & Sons Wisconsin Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a solid craft whiskey. I normally don’t buy a bottle and then write it up, but this is something bourbon lovers need to hear about, as the J. Henry & Sons Wisconsin 7 Year Old has become a favorite. It is produced on Henry Farms in ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Brown-Forman’s revival of King of Kentucky is back for a second go-around. It joins the swollen ranks of annual, hot ticket bourbon releases, but avoids the crunch by being timed for summer rather than autumn. Last year’s was a 14 year old bourbon made from a 75% corn, 11% rye, 10% malted barley (so not ...

By Andrew Graham Rating: A My household has one rule when it comes to our whiskey shelf: the last dram of every bottle we drink goes into the same glass decanter, which will become an increasingly voluminous blend as time goes on — assuming we don’t go and drink the stuff quicker than we can add to it. In theory, ...

By Emma Briones Rating: A- What do you do when you have found the perfect cask, your dream dram? How do you find something capable of competing with that extraordinary cask? Of course, you must go farther. To do so, Irish Distillers Master Blender Billy Leighton, in collaboration with Blender Dave McCabe, have worked together to create Redbreast Dream Cask ...