By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Sonoma Distilling Company’s bourbon has evolved a bit since the distillery got started. Initially they had a series of releases called “West of Kentucky.” In 2018, the distillery revamped their whiskey line, with West of Kentucky No. 1 becoming their Cherrywood Smoked Bourbon and West of Kentucky No. 2 becoming the standard Sonoma Bourbon. For ...

By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ Of course, all of us are familiar with the name “Yellowstone.” The national park associated with the name conjures up images of immense size, beauty and ruggedness. The original founder of Yellowstone Bourbon, JB Dant, had those associations very much in mind for his whiskey. Limestone Branch Distillery is the current owner of the ...

Brown-Forman has announced the expansion of Coopers’ Craft with the launch of a new expression, Coopers’ Craft Barrel Reserve. Introduced in 2016 as Brown-Forman’s newest bourbon brand in 20 years, Coopers’ Craft bourbon no adds the 100-proof Barrel Reserve plus an updated package design for the original Coopers’ Craft bourbon. Honoring the men and women who raise the barrels, Coopers’ Craft celebrates ...

Updated April 14, 2019 By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Produced by Seattle’s OOLA Distillery, Discourse C is paradoxically the first release in the series. I write that because when I first saw it, I assumed it was the third; “C” after all. The purpose of the series is to start a dialogue, as much between drinkers as between the distillery ...

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 ...