By Richard Thomas Rating: B KOVAL Four Grain Single Barrel Whiskey has no lead grain (i.e. no grain at 51% or higher in the mash bill). In fact, we don’t know what the exact grain recipe is, except to say it’s malted barley, oats, rye and wheat. Like everything KOVAL does, it’s a single barrel, bottled at 94 proof and ...

By Emma Briones Rating: B+ Coffee and coffee houses have been and remain trendy for the “it crowd,” and sometimes beyond. Specialty coffee has awaken millennials all around Europe, hungry for a hot or cold beverage that can be enjoyable and also look great on social media (and thank God we are already past the avocado-coffee trend!). The combination of ...

Manatawny Still Works has released a maple barrel whiskey. The spirit is a blend of multiple vintages of Manatawny’s four-grain whiskey and the Pennsylvania-made Whiskey Hollow Maple Syrup, combined to produce a handcrafted and luscious spirit. The journey of Manatawny’s Maple Whiskey began about a year ago, when the distillery shipped some empty barrels over to their friends at Whiskey ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ First, let’s head off some potential confusion: there is an Old Scout Bourbon and an Old Scout American Whiskey. This is about the latter. This is one of those clever blends that outfits like Smooth Ambler and High West are so noted for. The started with a stock of high rye (36% rye content) bourbon ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B One of the signatures of the Virginia Distillery Company is blending their in-house malt whiskey with imported Scottish Highland malt whisky. Another is their reliance upon Virginia sources for finishing casks. Thus, the distillery reached out to Potter’s Craft Cider and acquired some of their used casks for a first batch of Cider Cask whiskey, ...