By April Manning Rating: B- “When it comes to whiskey, go slow. It has to be smooth, and it has to be good” – Duane H. Maas So, who is this sage? Duane Maas is a noteworthy distiller of the 20th century, and his legacy (or his hangover, if you will) includes developing distilleries in eight countries. Not a small ...
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Port Askaig 10th Anniversary Scotch Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Back when “deceptive whiskey” was a feverish thing for whiskey bloggers and nerds, I would sometimes point out that the same sort of practices were pretty normal over in the UK, which would produce a lot of ignorant sputtering in turn. Port Askaig is a case in point: it’s whisky sourced from an unnamed distillery ...
Read More »Bardstown Bourbon Company Discovery Series #1 Bourbon Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Since Bardstown Bourbon Company had not just a working distillery, but actually a rather large working distillery, in operation prior to launching their own brands, they had a greater range of choices available to them than most newcomers to the whiskey business. They could have chosen to release a young, but entirely in-house product, but ...
Read More »Parker’s Heritage Heavy Char Rye Whiskey Review (2019)
By Richard Thomas Rating: A- The ongoing Parker’s Heritage Collection is known for its interesting and aged spins on whiskeys. Even if half the releases thus far have been relatively normal bourbons (especially by limited edition standards), the other half has included some of the oldest bourbons of their class; the oldest wheat whiskey released in modern times; and a ...
Read More »Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Uncle Nearest is named for one Nathan “Nearest” Green, a slave emancipated by the Civil War who is, at present, the first documented African-American distiller. He became the focus of some media buzz a couple of years ago, when research connected Green during the 1850s, when Jack Daniel was just a boy and doing odd ...
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