By Michael Cervin Grade: B- If whiskey is music to your ears, then Three Chord might be on your scale. Musician Neil Geraldo, better know as rocker Pat Benetar’s long-time guitarist and husband, has composed a new whiskey. I can see you rolling your eyes: another celebrity spirit? Sure, that’s understandable. But there’s more. Three Cord is made of Kentucky ...

Updated October 29, 2018 By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ Treaty Oak Distilling was founded in 2006 by Daniel Barnes in Dripping Springs, Texas, and is comprised of a mixture of talent coming from distillers, sommeliers, botanists and architects. Treaty Oak’s Ghost Hill Texas Bourbon Whiskey is named after the 28 acre ranch that hosts Treaty Oak. The mashbill is ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B The craft movement is now 10 to 12 years old, but even the earliest entrants haven’t introduced whiskeys several years or a decade old. This is because most of those early micro-distilleries were using barrels so small that aging even a year would leave the whiskey cloyingly over-oaked. Those that weren’t relying exclusively on small ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Ironically, Jack Daniel’s introduction of a Bottled In Bond version of their Tennessee Whiskey, billed as a testimony to the heritage of the brand, also points directly to how the Bottled In Bond Act of 1897 is something of a dusty antique. Jack Daniel’s introduced its iconic square bottle in 1895, and the Progressive Era ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Anchor Distilling’s (now Hotaling & Co.) Old Portero is craft whiskey before there was craft whiskey, predating the movement we know today by almost two decades. However, it took the explosion of small distillers for Old Potrero to pursue brand expansions. After all, you need to know a market is there. Old Potrero 18th Century ...