By Richard Thomas Rating: C Michigan’s Wonderland Distilling Company enters a pretty crowded field, because the Wolverine State has a pretty well-developed craft whiskey scene. Like many newcomers, they have started by releasing a sourced product; what many croakers have never been willing to accept is that liquor is a business, and it makes all the business sense in the ...
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Chicken Cock Rye Whiskey Review
By April Manning Rating: C+ Not all chickens are cocks, but all cocks are chickens… When you are over 160 years old and known as The Famous Old Brand, you need a worthy back story… and this one has several. In 1856 James A. Miller set off on the journey of producing a high-quality whiskey in Paris, Kentucky, which, as ...
Read More »Pinhook Ryed On Rye Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: C Rye’d On represents a departure for Castle & Key. Most of the brand’s releases have been whiskeys sourced from MGP in Indiana, perhaps aged in Castle & Key’s unique Warehouse B, and typically part of a vertical series. An example is Pinhook Rye Time. The new whiskey represents an entirely separate creature, as Rye’d On ...
Read More »Kooper Sweetheart of the Rodeo Bourbon Review
By Douglas Fraser Grade: C+ The Kooper Family Distillery is 100% family owned and operated, by Troy and Michelle Kooper, who have spent years making and blending whiskey in Ledbetter, Texas. Their blends can be found predominantly in the Lone Star State, but aren’t unknown elsewhere. Like many a small whiskey company, they started by blending sourced distillates before making ...
Read More »New Riff Bottled In Bond Rye Whiskey Review
By Douglas Fraser Grade: C+ New Riff Distilling was established in 2014 in Newport, KY, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. This medium-sized distillery is independently owned, committed to the standards set by the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897, and to bottling without any chill filtration. They draw their water from a private well, which they drilled under their ...
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