Corn Whiskey, White Whiskey, and Moonshine

Catoctin Creek Holds Steady On Prices Despite Virginia Mark-Up

Despite the increase in mark-ups recently announced by the Virginia ABC board, Catoctin Creek will hold steady its retail pricing, essentially absorbing the cost of the mark-ups at the wholesale level and shielding the consumer from the price mark-up for its own products. The retail price on Watershed Gin and Mosby’s Spirit, the distillery’s “white” spirits category, will be further ...

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Q&A With Spencer Balentine of Silver Trail Distillery

By Richard Thomas In their quest for authenticity most legal moonshiners try to lay claim to some kind of illegal connection, but few come across as authentic as Silver Trail Distillery’s Spencer Balentine. With family roots in Western Kentucky ‘shining, Balentine can talk the talk, so much so that he appeared as “The Legal Guy” in Discovery Channel’s Moonshiners. He walks ...

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Ole Smoky Moonshine Now Available In All 50 States

Gatlinburg, Tennessee’s Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine is now available nationwide. A move into Utah makes 50 states for the independently owned brand out of Gatlinburg, TN, just shy of its fifth anniversary. Two of Ole Smoky’s most popular flavors, Ole Smoky White Lightnin’ and Ole Smoky Moonshine Cherries, will be available in the majority of Utah’s state-owned liquor stores. “Distribution ...

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Book Review: Moonshine

By Richard Thomas In what one pundit called “The Golden Age of Whiskey Books,” moonshine has been getting a disproportionate amount of attention. I imagine this is because illicit liquor-making makes for such good non-fiction storytelling, and just maybe the hipster chic that attached itself to moonshine several years ago helps just a bit too. Yet most books on the ...

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Neal Thompson Talks Whiskey

Neal Thompson

By Richard Thomas One of the things the whiskey boom has brought about is what they are calling “The Golden Age of Whiskey Books.” Books about whiskey and every imaginable intersection with whiskey are coming out just about every week, as we well know here at The Whiskey Reviewer because of how frustrated we are by our inability to read and ...

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