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OOLA Waitsburg Bourbon Review

OOLA Waitsburg Bourbon

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- OOLA is a stylishly designed micro-distillery located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, started in 2010 by an artist and art dealer named Kirby Kallas-Lewis. Their Waitsburg Bourbon started out as a blend of sourced and in-house whiskeys, but nowadays it’s all in-house. It’s a wheated bourbon, aged for five years in standard, 53-gallon barrels. The ...

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Barrell Bourbon Batch 017 Review

Barrell Bourbon Batch 017

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ In the hullabaloo surrounding the launch of the Barrell Craft Spirits (BCS) line of super premium whiskeys, it might be forgivable to overlook that their normal, well-established lines of spirits continue. The main case in point is the most recent Barrell Bourbon, now in its seventeenth batch. Barrell Bourbon Batch 017 is billed as a ...

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