Former Four Roses Master Distiller Jim Rutledge has unveiled plans to open a new distillery in Middletown, Kentucky, located east of Louisville. Rutledge’s partners in the venture are Stephen Camisa and Jon Mowry, both co-managing partners of Bedford & Grove LLC, a liquor wholesaler and distributer. Rutledge announced his intention to start his own distillery several months after leaving Four ...

The use of forest terroir and exotic, local tree species has become a growing part of modern whiskey-making, but Buffalo Trace Distillery began working about 15 years ago, resulting in a re-imagined whiskey brand called Old Charter Oak. Most bourbon whiskey is aged in oak from the American Ozarks, Appalachia or northern Alabama, but Buffalo Trace Distillery wondered if barrels ...

Hitting shelves this month is a 10 Year Old version of Basil Hayden, the high rye, premium expression from Jim Beam. Like the basic expression, Basil Hayden 10 Year Old is bottled at a lighter 80 proof. The original Basil Hayden was an 8 year old bourbon, basically an older version of Old Granddad. That age statement was removed in ...

By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ Having lived much of my life in Indiana, it always seemed to me there should have been a much larger whiskey representation in both distilleries and retail product. Kentucky and (southern) Indiana have much in common culturally, but the whiskey part never got much of a footing north of the Ohio River. Of course, ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ One of the mysteries that engrosses bourbon nerds these days is just what is in a bottle of Bulleit. The company used to source it’s whiskey from Four Roses, but the demands of the Bourbon Boom meant that company needed it’s production capacity for its own products, and they terminated the supply contract with Bulleit ...