The third batch of Booker’s for 2019 is making its way to store and bar shelves, this one dubbed “Country Ham.” Booker Noe’s grandfather, Jim Beam himself, cured his own hams in a backyard smokehouse which still stands on the Beam property today. When Booker moved into Beam’s house, he revived the tradition, restored the smokehouse, and cured his own ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: D+ Bearcat Bourbon is bottled by Bearcat Infused Bourbon as an NAS whiskey done at 80 proof (40% ABV), distilled by OZ Tyler Distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky, and bottled in Missouri. The plan for Bearcat is for all operations to be moved to Kentucky later this year. The OZ Tyler Distillery Bourbon Whiskey mash bill is ...

With its latest release, Knob Creek Quarter Oak explores and deepens the influence of oak on its flagship, seminal small batch bourbon. The expression takes the Jim Beam bourbon stock used to make Knob Creek and gives a finish for a minimum of four years in quarter cask, American oak barrels to increase the amount of contact between the whiskey ...

By Richard Thomas The bourbon boom times have brought plenty of new investment into the whiskey industry in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and along with it have been several new distillery starts. The newcomers have ranged from a handful of crafty nano-distilleries to Bardstown Bourbon Company, a distillery so productive it just might have cracked into the Top 10 list ...

The Bardstown Bourbon Company will release three new products as part of its Collaborative Series, including two bourbons aged in brandy barrels from Copper & Kings American Brandy Company, as well as a bourbon finished in beer barrels from Goodwood Brewing Company. All products will be available Tuesday, October 1 in select markets.  The latest collaboration between Bardstown Bourbon Company and Copper & ...