By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Back when croaking “craft whiskey sucks” was a thing in blogs and forums, I often found myself occupying a space between said croakers and the sometimes too-superlative coverage got in the major media. The latter often misunderstood who they were writing about and what made them special; the former regularly confused “different” or “not famous” ...

By Paer Johansson Rating: B+ All right, so we have all heard of and experienced that different factors affect the taste of whisky such as the fermentation time, the type of yeast used, the length of the middle-cut and of course the cask the whisky is matured in. We also know that different casks can attribute different flavors to the ...

By Elizabeth Emmons Rating: B+ Within the past 10 years in the US, New York in particular, Australian foodie culture has made its mark in a big way. Bluestone Lane, the Melbourne-inspired coffee shop which was once a secret for those in the know, (requiring, as it did an escalator ride down a flight in a non-descript quiet lobby in ...

By Douglas Fraser Grade: B+ Kinsey 4 Year Old Rye is the second of the three whiskies in the Kinsey box set I received for Christmas 2019 (I’ve also written up the 10 Year Old American Whiskey). Kinsey is a revived brand coming from New Liberty Distillery in Philadelphia, PA. The distillery pays homage to the original foundation along the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Whenever Bardstown Bourbon Company (BBCo) releases a new cask-finished, collaborative bourbon, I await the sample eagerly in hopes it will be another Phifer Pavitt Reserve Bourbon, which was a lovely expression. The latest is their collaboration with Chateau de Laubade, a double first for BBCo in being both international and drawing on Armagnac casks. The ...